Clarissa Ward
Chief International Correspondent, CNN
Clarissa Ward is CNN’s multi-award-winning chief international correspondent. Currently based in London, she has spent two decades reporting from front lines in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Gaza, and Ukraine for CNN, ABC, CBS, and Fox News.
Ward is the recipient of multiple awards, including 12 Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, three Alfred I duPont-Columbia Awards, two Edward R Murrow Awards, and a George Polk Award. She is the author of On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist, which details her career as a conflict reporter.
Ward recently reported from Syria on the fall of Bashar al-Assad. She has also reported extensively on the Israel-Hamas war from both Israel and Gaza, where she and her team became the only Western journalists to gain access to Gaza without the IDF, and she spent over five months in Ukraine Russia’s invasion. She also reported from Afghanistan on life under Taliban control, a story she covered live on the streets of the capital in August 2021. In 2020 Ward teamed up with online investigative outlet Bellingcat to unveil the team of Russian FSB operatives responsible for poisoning opposition leader Alexey Navalny.
