Susan B. Glasser

Susan Glasser is a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she is author of the weekly “Letter from Trump’s Washington” and co-host of the popular Political Scene Podcast. Glasser previously led four publications and served as a foreign correspondent and top editor at The Washington Post.

Glasser was editor of POLITICO, guiding a news operation of 200 journalists in the momentous 2016 election cycle, and founded POLITICO Magazine, the award-winning journal. Before that, she was editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, relaunching its web site as a daily publication and winning multiple National Magazine Awards while its online readership grew tenfold.

She spent 10 years at The Post where she served as Assistant Managing Editor for National News, editor of the Outlook section and Moscow Co-Bureau Chief. She directed coverage of the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, chronicled the rise of Vladimir Putin and reported from the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Glasser worked for eight years at Roll Call, the preeminent newspaper covering Congress, where she rose from intern to its top editor.

Glasser is co-author of three books with her husband Peter Baker, most recently The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, and The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III, both New York Times bestsellers.

A native of New Jersey, Glasser graduated from Harvard University in 1990 and lives in Washington with Baker.

"As a Harvard alum and longtime member of the Harvard Crimson graduate board, I know how special the university is and this will be a great opportunity to return to campus for more than just a brief visit. I'm really looking forward to the chance to engage with both fellow scholars and the incredible young students there."