Higher Education

Clarissa Ward

Clarissa Ward is CNN’s chief international correspondent. In her career spanning Fox, CBS, and ABC, Ward has reported from front lines across the world over nearly decades. She has won nine Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards for distinguished journalism, honors from the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association, the 2017 David Kaplan Award from the Overseas Press Club, and the Excellence in International Reporting Award from the International Center for Journalists. She graduated with distinction from Yale University, and in 2013 received an honorary doctor of letters degree from Middlebury College in Vermont. She lives in London.