Evan Osnos

Evan Osnos is a multiple award-winning journalist who spent much of his career covering China. His keynote remarks will address Understanding China: How to Tell the China Story to American Students.

Evan Osnos is a Staff Writer at The New Yorker magazine, based in Beijing. Previously, he was the Beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, where he contributed to an investigation of unsafe products that won a 2008 Pulitzer Prize. Among other awards, he has received the Asia Society's Osborn Elliott Prize for coverage of Asia, the Overseas Press Club award for writing on the environment, and the Livingston Award, for foreign reporting. In China, he also has worked as a correspondent for the PBS program, FRONTLINE/World. Before China, he spent two years as a Chicago Tribune correspondent in the Middle East, reporting mostly from Iraq. He is a 1998 graduate of Harvard.