Mr. Roy Gutman is the author of Banana Diplomacy, The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua; A Witness to Genocide (the inside account of the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia); co editor of Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know; and author of How We Missed the Story, Osama Bin Laden, The Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan.
Roy Gutman was named President and CEO of the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs in March 2022, succeeding Dr. Frank Burd, the council’s founder. Mr. Gutman’s career as a foreign affairs reporter and editor took him to Germany, Britain, the former Yugoslavia, Europe at the end of the Cold War, and more recently in Iraq and Turkey. He is the author of Banana Diplomacy, The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua; A Witness to Genocide (the inside account of the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia); co-editor of Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know; and author of How We Missed the Story, Osama Bin Laden, The Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan. His reporting on “Ethnic Cleansing” in Bosnia-Herzegovina won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and other awards. Designated one of “50 visionaries who are changing your world” by the Utne Reader, he was named an honorary citizen of Bosnia-Herzegovina and awarded a key to the city of Sarajevo, April 2010. The is the recipient of the Arthur Ross prize of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Frances Shattuck Security and Peace Award of the International Law Committee of the American Bar Association.