Dan Bilefsky

Dan Bilefsky is a New York-based Metro reporter for the New York Times. Until recently, he was the Prague-based east and central Europe correspondent for The Times and the International Herald Tribune.^[1]

Biography

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Bilefsky was formerly the Times' Brussels bureau chief. A graduate of Oxford University and the University of Pennsylvania, Bilefsky has also worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times and has been a correspondent based in New York, London, Paris and Prague.

As a roving correspondent, Bilefsky has written on many subjects, from honor killings in Turkey to bullfighting in Portugal and the hunt for the Bosnian-Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic in the Balkans. ^{[2] [3][4][5]} But his work also includes the more light-hearted, such as the world's most high-tech brothel, in Antwerp.

Bilefsky covered the independence of Kosovo in February 2008^[6] and, six months later, the war between Russia and Georgia.^[7]

In the summer of 2008, Bilefsky set out for the mountains of northern Albania to chronicle the ancient custom of "sworn virgins", women who forsake marriage, sex and children in order to become the "men of the house".^[8]

He is the co-editor of Birth of the Euro: Financial Times's Guide to the Single Currency (London: Penguin Books, 1998).

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