Clarissa Ward
Award-Winning Journalist
Clarissa Ward is CNN’s multi-award winning chief international correspondent based in London. She has spent more than two decades reporting from front lines in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Gaza and Ukraine for CNN, ABC, CBS and Fox News. Clarissa is the recipient of multiple awards for her journalism, including 13 Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, three Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards and a George Polk Award. She is the author of ‘On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist,’ which details her singular career as a conflict reporter. Ward’s career in journalism started in 2002 as an intern at CNN’s Moscow bureau. She speaks fluent French and Italian, conversational Russian, Arabic and Spanish and basic Mandarin.
