Patrick Kingsley

Patrick Kingsley

Patrick Kingsley is the Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times, covering Israel and the occupied territories. Patrick has reported from more than 40 countries, and is the author of two books, “The New Odyssey,” about the European refugee crisis, and “How To Be Danish,” an exploration of contemporary Danish culture. He is a former foreign reporter of the year at the British Journalism Awards, and has lectured at the universities of Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge. Mr. Kingsley joined The New York Times in 2017, first as the paper’s acting Turkey bureau chief, and then as a roving Europe correspondent, focusing on longer-term reporting projects. Mr. Kingsley previously worked for The Guardian for seven years, reporting from across the Middle East and Europe. He was based first in Cairo, where he was The Guardian’s Egypt correspondent, and then Istanbul, where he worked as the paper’s migration correspondent. With a colleague, he conducted the last interview of the Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, before his ouster in 2013. Mr. Kingsley was born in London in June 1989. He has a first-class degree in English Literature from Cambridge University, and a diploma in journalism from Britain’s National Council for the Training of Journalists. He has won several awards, including the Frontline Award for Print Journalism for his reporting on rights abuses by the Egyptian military.