Claudia Rosett

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Claudia Rosett is an American writer and journalist. She is journalist-in-residence at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a policy institute based in Washington, D.C. She writes regularly for Commentary Magazine, regarded as one of the preeminent journalistic voices for neoconservatism.

Rosett has been recognized for her groundbreaking work exposing the corruption behind the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food program. As U.S. News and World Report senior writer Michael Barone explained: "The U.N. Oil for Food program, we learn from the reporting of Claudia Rosett in The Wall Street Journal, was a rip-off on the order of $21 billion -- with money intended for hungry Iraqis going instead to Saddam Hussein and his henchmen, to bribed French and Russian businesses and, evidently, to the U.N.'s own man in charge, Benon Sevan."[1] For her reporting on the Oil-for-Food scandal, Rosett received the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism.

Rosett earned a B.A. in English at Yale University in 1976, an M.A. in English at Columbia University in 1979, and an MBA at the University of Chicago in 1981. She joined The Wall Street Journal in 1984, becoming the editorial page editor at The Asian Wall Street Journal in 1986. In 1992 she moved to India and then on to Moscow in 1993, first as a reporter for the Journal, then as Moscow Bureau Chief, before taking leave in 1996. In 1997 she returned to New York where she served on the editorial board of the Journal until 2002. She wrote a regular column called "The Real World" for The Wall Street Journal Europe and OpinionJournal.com from July 2000 to December 2005. In 1990 she received an Overseas Press Club Citation for Excellence in recognition of her on-the-scene reporting of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

In June–July 2006, Rosett wrote a blog at the National Review's website about the trial of Tongsun Park. In August 2006, she started another blog for Pajamas Media. She is frequently interviewed on the Hugh Hewitt Show.