Elizabeth Becker is an award-winning journalist and author, most recently of “YOU DON’T BELONG HERE: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War.” 

She began her career as a war correspondent for the Washington Post in Cambodia. She later became the Senior Foreign Editor of National Public Radio and a New York Times correspondent covering national security and international economics.

Her earlier books include “OVERBOOKED: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism” an investigation of the travel industry which was an Amazon book of the year. She is also the author of “WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, “ the definitive book on the war and genocide that has been in print since 1986.

In 2015 she testified as an expert witness at the international war crimes tribunal of the senior Khmer Rouge leaders.

She was a fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center, holds a degree from the University of Washington and studied language at the Kendriya Hindi Sansthaan in Agra, India. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the board of the Oxfam America Advocacy Fund.