Ronan Farrow is a contributing writer for The New Yorker, where his investigative reporting has earned him awards such as the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the National Magazine Award, and the George Polk Award, among others. His print opinion and reporting have appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. He previously worked as an anchor and investigative reporter for MSNBC and NBC News. He worked for the State Department in Afghanistan and Pakistan before starting his media career. He's also the author of War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Fall of American Power, which was a New York Times bestseller. Farrow was selected to Time Magazine's 100 Most Important Persons and GQ's Men of the Year lists.

He is a Yale Law School graduate and a member of the New York Bar. He recently received his Ph.D. He received his bachelor's degree in political science from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is a New Yorker.