He has previously served as editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, a position he assumed when he was 28, and as foreign-affairs columnist of the Wall Street Journal, where he also oversaw editorial-page coverage in Europe and Asia. He is a co-founder, with Garry Kasparov, of the Renew Democracy Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to defending democratic institutions at home and abroad.
Bret was raised in Mexico City and educated at the University of Chicago and the London School of Economics. He has interviewed scores of world leaders and reported stories from the streets of Gaza to the hinterlands of Afghanistan to the ice sheet of Greenland. He is the author of “America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder” (2014).
Bret’s awards and honors include the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, the 2019 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the 2023 Teddy Kollek Award, and three honorary doctorates.
In 2022, the government of Russia barred him for life from entering that country.
He lives near New York with his wife Corinna, a music critic. They have three children.