May Fellows Breakfast with Yaroslav Trofimov

*This event is only open to 2023-2024 Fellows.

The World Affairs Council Fellows Program offers a unique professional development opportunity to a small group of greater Seattle's business and community leaders. The Fellows convene monthly for breakfast discussions with carefully selected high-caliber international experts who offer unparalleled insight into current global issues, in addition to meeting throughout the year for additional Council events and dedicated networking opportunities.

About our speaker

Yaroslav Trofimov is the Chief Foreign-affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for two consecutive years, in 2022 and 2023. He has been working out of Ukraine since January 2022. Before covering the Russian war on Ukraine, Trofimov reported on most major conflicts of the past two decades, serving as the Journal’s Bureau Chief in Afghanistan and Pakistan and as a correspondent in Iraq. He joined the Journal in 1999 and previously served as Rome, Middle East and Singapore-based Asia correspondent Trofimov holds an MA from New York University and is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Faith at War and The Siege of Mecca.