Email: Ann Scott Tyson
Ann Scott Tyson is the Monitor鈥檚 Beijing Bureau Chief, covering China and Northeast Asia.
Ann is an award-winning journalist and author whose career includes a decade covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and eight years as a foreign correspondent in China and Asia. Her U.S. beats have included the Pentagon, Congress, and the Midwest. In addition to the Monitor, she has reported for The Washington Post and contributed to The Wall Street Journal.
Ann is the author of a bestselling Afghanistan war memoir, 鈥淎merican Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant.鈥� She also co-wrote 鈥淐hinese Awakenings: Life Stories from the Unofficial China.鈥�
Ann graduated from Harvard College with an honors degree in government and East Asian studies and earned an honors certificate from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris (Sciences Po). She was awarded the Bagehot Fellowship for graduate studies in economics and business at Columbia University and the Rotary Graduate Fellowship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She speaks Chinese and French.
Stories by Ann Scott Tyson
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