Registration Opens April 2nd
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Dr. Carla Anne Robbins
Veteran foreign policy journalist and national security expert, Pulitzer Prize–winning former senior editor at The New York Times and chief diplomatic correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, now serving as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor of international affairs, with expertise spanning global security, U.S. foreign policy, and international diplomacy.
Patron Event
Thursday, April 16, 2026
6:30 – 8:00 PM
Reception: 6:30 – 7:00 PM
Lecture and Q&A: 7:00 – 8:00 PM
Library at the Cosmopolitan Club
122 East 66th Street
New York, NY 10065
About the Topic
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About the Speaker
Dr. Carla Anne Robbins is a veteran journalist, foreign policy expert, and academic with a career spanning major global media outlets, academia, and think tanks. She currently serves as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and as the Marxe Faculty Director of the Master in International Affairs program as well as a clinical professor of national security studies at Baruch College’s Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.
Before transitioning to academia and policy analysis, Dr. Robbins had a distinguished journalistic career. She was deputy editorial page editor of The New York Times and served as chief diplomatic correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, reporting from Latin America, Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. During her time at The Wall Street Journal, she was co-winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. She also received the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting and other honors for her work.
Dr. Robbins is a graduate of Wellesley College and earned her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. She was also a Nieman fellow at Harvard University and a media fellow at Stanford University, underscoring her commitment to journalism and scholarly research.