A veteran war correspondent, Scott Peterson became the Monitor’s Istanbul Bureau Chief in September, 2005. From his home base, he makes regular reporting trips to Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and other countries in the region.

          From 2000 – 2005, Scott served as the Monitor’s Moscow Bureau Chief reporting on Russia and the former Soviet republics. During that time, he also covered the war in Afghanistan including the Northern Alliance’s march on Kabul.

          Since 2002, Scott has also served as one of the Monitor’s Iraq war correspondents. He frequently travels to Baghdad and has done a number of embed assignments with US marines in Fallujah.

          Prior to his posting in Moscow, Scott served for four years as the Monitor’s Middle East correspondent. From his home base in Amman, Jordan, he covered the Arab and Islamic world from Algeria to the Persian Gulf. 

          Before joining the Monitor, Peterson served as the Balkans correspondent for The Daily Telegraph of London.  He traveled extensively in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia, covering the end of the siege of Sarajevo, the Dayton peace plan, and American troop deployment.

          Before that, he was The Telegraph's East Africa correspondent. From his base in Kenya, he traveled to war zones throughout Africa.

          Peterson chronicled his African tour of duty in a new book entitled Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda. In gripping detail, the book recounts the genocide in Rwanda, the U.S. military intervention in Somalia, and his journeys on both sides of the religious front-line in Sudan's civil war.

          Peterson also works as a photographer for Getty Images. His photos appear regularly in the Monitor and other prominent publications.

          A 1988 graduate of Yale University with a BA in English and East Asian Studies, Peterson speaks Mandarin Chinese, French, Arabic and Russian. He is married and the father of four children.

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