Anna Fifield is the Asia-Pacific editor at the Washington Post and spent 20 years abroad as a foreign correspondent, including as the Post's bureau chief in Beijing and Tokyo/Seoul. She was Tehran correspondent for the Financial Times then covered the Obama White House for the paper. She is the author of The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un. Anna won Stanford University's Shorenstein Journalism Award for Asia coverage in 2018 and was a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University in 2013-2014.