Clarissa Ward is CNN’s multi-award-winning chief international correspondent based in London and the author of ”On All Fronts: the Education of a Journalist.” 

She has spent nearly two decades reporting from the front lines worldwide, from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Yemen to Ukraine, Gaza, and Israel, most recently.

Ward’s extensive war coverage in Ukraine was honored with two 2023 News & Documentary Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Short Form and Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage categories. She has won multiple awards for her reporting: 10 Emmy Awards; two George Foster Peabody Awards; two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards; two Edward R. Murrow Awards for distinguished journalism; honors from the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association; two David Kaplan Awards from the Overseas Press Club and the 2019 Reporter/Correspondent of the Year Award from The Gracies. 

Ward’s career in journalism started in 2002 as an intern at CNN’s Moscow bureau. She has since been based in Baghdad, Beijing, Beirut, Moscow, New York and London. She graduated with distinction from Yale University in 2013 and received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Middlebury College in Vermont.