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Born in Hungary, Kati Marton has combined a career as a reporter and writer with human rights advocacy.  From 2003 to 2008 Marton chaired the International Women’s Health Coalition, a global leader in promoting and protecting the health and human rights of women and girls.  From 2001 to July 2002 Kati Marton was Chief Advocate for the Office of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict at the United Nations. Marton is currently a director and formerly chair of the Committee to Protect Journalists. She also serves on the board of directors of the International Rescue Committee, Human Rights Watch, the Central European University, and the New America Foundation, a public policy think tank.  She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, P.E.N. International and the Author’s Guild.

Since 1980, Marton has published eight books and contributed as a reporter to ABC News, Public Broadcasting Services, National Public Radio, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Times of London, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, and The New Republic. Marton’s latest book, a Cold War memoir entitled Enemies of the People - My Family’s Journey to America, was published in the fall of 2009 by Simon and Schuster.  The book, a National Book Critics Circle finalist, is soon to be the subject of a major motion picture.

Marton attended Wells College in Aurora, New York, the Sorbonne, and the Institute des Etudes de Science Politiques in Paris. She earned a B.A. in Romance Languages and a M.A. in International Relations from the George Washington University. She has also received two honorary doctorates: one from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island in 2000 and another from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York in 2009.  Winner of a George Foster Peabody award for a documentary on China, Marton has joined the faculty of Bard College.