Professional Affiliation

Staff Writer at The New Yorker, Founding editor of Politico Magazine

Expert Bio

Susan Glasser is POLITICO’s chief international affairs columnist and host of its new weekly podcast, “The Global Politico.”



Ms. Glasser, who served as founding editor of the award-winning POLITICO Magazine and went on to become editor of POLITICO throughout the 2016 election cycle, has reported everywhere from the halls of Congress to the battle of Tora Bora. The former editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, she spent four years traveling the former Soviet Union as the Washington Post’s Moscow co-bureau chief; covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and co-authored Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin and the End of Revolution with her husband, the New York Times chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker. They’re now working on a biography of former Secretary of State Jim Baker.



Ms. Glasser joined POLITICO in 2013 after several years as editor-in-chief of the award-winning magazine Foreign Policy, overseeing its relaunch in print and as a daily online magazine. During her tenure, the magazine was recognized as a finalist for ten National Magazine Awards and won three of the magazine world's highest honors.



Before that, she worked for a decade at the Washington Post, where she was a foreign correspondent, editor of the Post’s Sunday Outlook and national news sections, and political reporter. She started at the Post in 1998 as deputy national editor overseeing the Monica Lewinsky investigation and the subsequent impeachment of President Bill Clinton, and later served as a national political reporter, covering the intersection of money and politics.



Prior to joining the Post, Ms. Glasser worked for eight years at Roll Call, the newspaper covering the U.S. Congress, where she rose from intern to be the top editor. A graduate of Harvard University, she lives in Washington with Mr. Baker and their son. She serves on the boards of the Pew Research Center and the Harvard Crimson student newspaper and is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.