Staff Writer, The New Yorker
National Judge

Evan Osnos has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008. He is also co-host of The New Yorker’s Political Scene podcast and a senior nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of four books, beginning with “Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China,” which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich,” was a New York Times bestseller in 2025. Prior to The New Yorker, he worked as the Beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, where he won the Livingston Award in 2006 and was on teams that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 and in 2008. Before his assignment to China, he worked in the Middle East, reporting mostly from Iraq. He lives with his family near Washington, D.C.