Kati Marton is a writer, journalist, and human rights advocate. She is the author of nine books, including the New York Times bestseller Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages that Shaped Our History, and True Believer: Stalin’s Last American Spy. As a broadcast reporter, she has contributed to ABC News, Public Broadcasting Services, and National Public Radio, and as a reporter to the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Times of London, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, and New Republic. From 1995 until 1997, Marton hosted NPR’s America and the World, and she was involved in the development of All Things Considered. In the late 1970s, she was ABC bureau chief in Germany, from where she also reported from Poland, Hungary, Italy, Holland, Northern Ireland, East Germany, and the Middle East.

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Marton is a former chair of the International Women’s Health Coalition, and served as Chief Advocate for the Office of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict at the United Nations. From 2000 to 2011, she was a member of the board of Human Rights Watch. Marton is currently a director and formerly chair of the Committee to Protect Journalists and also serves on the board of directors of the International Rescue Committee and the New America Foundation. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, P.E.N. International and the Author’s Guild, and sits on the board of Central European University.

Marton’s many accolades include a George Foster Peabody Award, Philadelphia Press Association Award for Best Television Feature Story, Marc H. Tannenbaum Foundation Award for the Advancement of Interreligious Understanding, and the Kyriazis Foundation Prize for the promotion of press freedom, the Rbekah Kohut Humanitarian Award, by the National Council of Jewish Women, Matrix-Award for Women Who Change the World, Edith Wharton Award for Journalism, Woodhull Institute’s Changemakers Award for Ethical Leadership in the Arts, and the United Nations Association Leo Nevas Human Rights Award. Most recently, she received the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of The Republic of Hungary. Marton has been a Gannett Fellow at Columbia University’s School of Journalism, a Rockefeller Foundation Creative Arts Fellow, and a Rockefeller Foundation fellow at the Bellagio Center.

Marton attended Wells College, the Sorbonne, and the Institute des Etudes de Science Politiques in Paris. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Romance languages and MA in international relations from the George Washington University. In 2000, she received an honorary doctorate from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island.