Judith Miller is an author and Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent at The New York Times who writes about national security issues, the Middle East and weapons of mass destruction.   She joined the Times in 1977 as a part of Washington Bureau, where she covered the securities industry, politics, foreign affairs and nuclear proliferation issues.   In 1983, she became the first woman to be named chief of paper’s bureau in Cairo, Egypt, and in 1987, returned to the U.S. as Washington Bureau news editor and deputy bureau chief.   Ms. Miller was later named a special correspondent to the Persian Gulf crisis.

She has authored four books, the most recent titled Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War. Her previous publications include God Has Ninety-Nine Names, which explores the spread of Islamic extremism in ten Middle Eastern countries; One, By One, By One, an account chronicling how six nations distorted the memory of the Holocaust; and Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf, the first comprehensive account of the Gulf War and its causes. In 2001, she was part of a team of New York Times correspondents that won the Pulitzer Prize for their “explanatory journalism” series on Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

A graduate of Barnard College and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Ms. Miller regularly speaks on national news and public affairs shows such as 60 Minutes, Oprah Winfrey, CNN, ABC's Night Line and Good Morning America, The Today Show, David Letterman, and The Charlie Rose Show.