David Ignatius is an internationally admired foreign affairs columnist and associate editor at the Washington Post. He is also a popular novelist, writing 12 successful novels about the world he covers as a reporter and columnist. His latest is Phantom Orbit. It is about space warfare in which a Russian scientist educated in part in China reconnects with an American woman he met in China, who is now a CIA analyst.

David’s strength as a columnist and novelist is his extraordinary knowledge and access to primary players in espionage and statecraft around the world, men and women who are on the front lines of the global struggle among nations to survive and dominate in peace and war.

David Ignatius graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude, and studied at King’s College Cambridge. He has had a varied and distinguished career working as an editor and reporter at the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He was executive editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris. Ignatius not only writes novels and a twice weekly column, but is also a commentator from MSNBC, appearing often on morning Joe.

One of his most widely discussed columns came after returning to the Washington Post. It was written in September, 2023, in which he complimented President Biden on his achievements, but urged him not to run for reelection.

He just returned from a post-election trip to Europe.