Trudy Rubin is the foreign correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer and a member of their editorial board. In 2019, she received the Overseas Press Club of America’s Flora Lewis award for Best Commentary on International Affairs. Ms. Rubin has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in both 2017 and 2001 for commentary, and for the Overseas Press Club commentary prize for her columns on global issues. She was the 2010 recipient of the Arthur Ross Award for distinguished analysis of foreign affairs from the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the 2008 recipient of the Edward Weintal prize for international reporting. She is the author of Willful Blindness: the Bush Administration and Iraq, a book of her columns from 2002-2004.
Her topic will be: "America First in the COVID-19 era: Has the US abandoned its global leadership role, and who would fill the vacuum?"
