Mr. Sanger is Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times and is one of the newspaper`s senior writers. In a 30-year career at the paper, he has reported from New York, Tokyo and Washington, specializing in foreign policy, national security and the politics of globalization. He is the author of the New York Times best-seller “The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power,’’ (2009) based on his seven years as the Times’ White House correspondent, covering two wars, the confrontations with Iran, North Korea and other rogue states, and America’s efforts to deal with the rise of China. Mr. Sanger was also a member of two teams that won the Pulitzer Prize and has been awarded numerous honors for national security and foreign policy coverage. A graduate of Harvard College, he is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.