Peter Hartcher is the Political Editor and the International Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. He is also chair editor of The Diplomat magazine, and a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney.

Hartcher is a three-time foreign correspondent who has worked as a journalist for 25 years writing about politics, economics and foreign affairs. Before taking his current position at The Herald, Hartcher wrote for the Australian Financial Review for a decade. He worked as its Washington bureau chief, its Asia-Pacific Editor and its Tokyo bureau chief.

As a Journalist, Peter Hartcher has a distinguished career. He won a Gold Walkley Award, for his investigative series into how Australia secretly negotiated a security treaty with Indonesia. He won the Citibank award for business reporting for his coverage of the Asian economic crisis, and was a Walkey finalist in 1992 for an investigative account of how Paul Keating challenged Bob Hawke for the Prime Ministership of Australia. Hartcher was nominated again in 2003 for his analysis of US motives for the invasion of Iraq.

Peter Hartcher has also been commissioned to write essays on Asia for the Washington-based foreign policy journal, The National Interest. Additionally, Peter writes for The Diplomat magazine, London Financial Times and The American Interest. He's been interviewed by NPR, CNN, BBC and ABC, among others.

 Peter appears through arrangement with Celebrity Speakers:  www.celebrityspeakers.com.au

** Denotes application made to the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) for accreditation under the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Scheme.