CHRISTOPHER OGDEN

Contributor
TIME Magazine
Washington, D.C.

Christopher Ogden writes about politics and foreign affairs in the "View from Washington" column for TIME Magazine's international editions.

As TIME's chief diplomatic correspondent from 1989 - 1992, Ogden traveled the world with President Bush and Secretary of State James Baker. Before that, he was the magazine's bureau chief both in London and the Midwest. He reported from Washington during the Ford and Carter Administrations as the State Department and senior White House correspondent, traveling with the Presidents and their foreign secretaries, Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance.

From overseas, Ogden has written extensively about East-West issues, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South Africa. He has also written about U.S. politics as a TIME national political correspondent. He covered Gerald Ford in the 1976 campaign, Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Walter Mondale in 1984.

Ogden has also reported for TIME from Los Angeles and Moscow where he joined the magazine in 1973. Overall, he has been the primary contributor to more than 80 cover stories. He's the only TIME correspondent credited with a cover photograph. That picture, of Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was later displayed in the National Portrait Gallery.

He is a frequent guest on television and radio news shows, including Meet the Press, Good Morning America, Washington Week in Review, MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour and many others in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

A 1966 graduate of Yale, Ogden is an army veteran who spent the late 1960's in Asia as an interpreter and intelligence officer. He is also the author of Maggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in Power, a biography of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Life of the Party, a biography of Pamela Harriman, the noted courtesan and U.S. Ambassador.

Married with two children, Ogden lives in Washington, D.C.