Chief Agricultural Writer
The New York Times
Elizabeth Becker is a Washington correspondent at the New York Times covering domestic policy. Previously she was Pentagon correspondent at the Times, covering national security affairs and Assistant Washington Editor overseeing foreign and economic news. Before joining the Times, Ms. Becker was the Senior Foreign Editor at National Public Radio. Her work was honored with two DuPont-Columbia Awards as the executive producer for coverage of Rwanda and South Africa. She began her career in Asia as a war correspondent for the Washington Post in Cambodia. Ms. Becker is the author of “When the War Was Over,” a history of modern Cambodian and Khmer Rouge, which won a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. She will chair the session, “Can the Land Sustain Needed Production?”