David Andelman

David A. Andelman, executive director of The Red Lines Project, and a veteran former New York Times and CBS News correspondent, is currently an award-winning columnist for CNNOpinion. His new book, A Red Line in the Sand: Diplomacy, Strategy, and the History of Wars That Could Still Happen, was published in 2021 along with its Evergreen podcast. In connection with their debut, he has spoken to broad (virtual) audiences in New York, London, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Warsaw, and is booked to speak to groups in Paris, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Washington, and New Delhi in the first half of 2021.

Represented by All American Speakers, he has spoken to corporate audiences from Montreal to Los Angeles. He appeared nightly on CBS News for a decade as senior European correspondent, and today appears frequently on CNN.

He was awarded the Deadline Club Award for Best Opinion Writing for his CNN commentaries in 2018 and again in 2019 for his Reuters columns. He served for seven years as Editor & Publisher of World Policy Journal. Previously he served as an executive editor of Forbes. Earlier, he was domestic and foreign correspondent for The New York Times in New York and Washington, as Southeast Asia bureau chief, based in Bangkok, then East European bureau chief, based in Belgrade. He then moved to CBS News where he served for seven years as senior European correspondent based in Paris. There followed service as Washington correspondent for CNBC, news editor of Bloomberg News and Business Editor of the New York Daily News. He has traveled through and reported from 86 countries.

He is the author of five books, The Peacemakers, published by Harper & Row, and The Fourth World War, published by William Morrow, which he co-authored with the Count de Marenches, long-time head of French intelligence. His third book, A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today was published in a Centenary Edition with foreword by Sir Harold Evans. He has translated from the French and written an epilogue to An Impossible Dream: Reagan, Gorbachev, and a World Without the Bomb published in June 2019 by Pegasus/Norton.

Andelman has written for Harpers, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Readers Digest, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and is a member of the Century Association, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard Club of New York, National Press Club and the Grolier Club. He is President-emeritus of the Overseas Press Club of America and The Silurians Press Club, the oldest club in America for veteran journalists.

On December 1, 2021, at the French Consulate General in New York, Andelman was awarded the rank of chevalier (knight) of the Légion d’Honneur, France’s highest civilian decoration.