Lee Hockstader

Lee Hockstader has been The Post's European Affairs columnist, based in Paris, since 2023. Prior to his current assignment, he was a member of the paper's Editorial Board for 19 years and, before that, a Post reporter for 20 years. He has worked in more than 40 countries, including as a foreign correspondent based in Jerusalem, Rome, Moscow and Central America. He also did stints as a national correspondent based in Texas, and as a reporter on The Post's local staff. Born in New York City, Hockstader graduated from Brown University and, after graduating, was a Henry Luce Scholar in Southeast Asia. He has studied on year-long fellowships at Harvard and Stanford universities. In 2014, he was awarded The Washington Post’s Eugene Meyer Award for lifetime achievement. In 2021, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.