White House and National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
David is the White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times. During a career of more than four decades as a Times foreign and Washington correspondent, he has been on three teams that have won Pulitzer Prizes, most recently in 2017 for international reporting. His newest book, published in 2024, is "New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion and the Struggle to Defend the West." It is his fourth book; in 2018 he published "The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age," and an HBO documentary by the same title, examining the emergence of cyberconflict and its role in changing the nature of global power. He has also written two Times best sellers on foreign policy and national security: "The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power," (2009), and "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power," (2012). For The Times, he has also served as Tokyo bureau chief, Washington economic correspondent, White House correspondent during the Clinton and Bush administrations, and chief Washington correspondent. He teaches national security at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, is a CNN contributor, and a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Council on Foreign Relations.
A member of the Board of Directors, The American Ditchley Foundation.