Louisa Loveluck is an award winning foreign correspondent whose work investigates the human cost of the decisions of political and military decision makers. She was a Finalist for last year’s Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. Her reporting has also been honoured with the OPC of America’s Shireen Abu Akleh Award and the IWMF’s Courage in Journalism Award.

As a staff writer for The Washington Post, she led investigations into abuses by the Israeli military in Gaza and Russian forces in Ukraine. She was the paper’s Baghdad Bureau Chief from 2019-2023, reporting on corruption, climate change, and the legacy of the US-led invasion of 2003. Before that, she was based in Beirut, covering the war in Syria and publishing a series of investigations into the fate of the country's tens of thousands of imprisoned and missing people.