Scott Peterson

One of the most well-traveled and experienced foreign correspondents of his generation, Scott Peterson has reported and photographed conflict and powerful human narratives across three continents for more than twenty years. Currently the Istanbul Bureau Chief for The Christian Science Monitor, he has made thirty extended reporting trips to Iran since 1996, more than any other American journalist. Scott first began covering Iran as the Middle East Correspondent for the Monitor based in Amman, Jordan, and then as Moscow Bureau Chief in Russia. He won a "Citation of Excellence" for reports from northern Iraq in 2002 from the Overseas Press Club of America. Prior to joining the Monitor, he covered the Balkans for The Daily Telegraph (London) working throughout the former Yugoslavia on conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Serbia. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda (Routledge, 2000), about his travels in war zones in Africa during six years in the 1990s. That book remains the definitive volume on how U.S. and United Nations operations unraveled in Somalia. Scott is also a photographer for Getty Images in New York, whose work has appeared in major news magazines, including Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Paris Match, and Le Figaro. The father of four children, he lives in Istanbul, Turkey.