Talk on Iraq war set Wednesday evening

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

12:08 p.m., April 5, 2005--“Iraq: The Best Medicine,” the next lecture in UD’s Global Agenda series, slated for 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 6, in Mitchell Hall, features Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Baghdad bureau chief for The Washington Post from April 2003 to October 2004.

In Baghdad, Chandrasekaran supervised a team of American correspondents and more than two dozen Iraqi staffers in covering the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

Currently on leave from The Washington Post, Chandrasekaran is a journalist in residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in Washington writing a book about the U.S. occupation of Iraq. He will join the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington as a public policy scholar in June.

Before the U.S.-led war in Iraq, Chandrasekaran was The Washington Post’s bureau chief in Cairo, and, before that assignment, he served as a correspondent based in Jakarta, Indonesia. In the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., Chandrasekaran was part of a team of reporters who covered the war in Afghanistan for The Washington Post, where he has been a foreign correspondent since 1999.

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Chandrasekaran holds a degree in political science from Stanford University, where he was editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily.

For more information, visit [www.udel.edu/global/agenda/2005].

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