Alex Marquardt is an award-winning foreign policy and security journalist who was most recently CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent.

Marquardt has led domestic and international breaking news coverage on a wide range of issues, including the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. In his role as the network’s top security reporter, he has reported on the Trump and Biden administrations’ intelligence community, National Security Council, State Department and Pentagon.

Prior to CNN, he was a foreign correspondent for ABC News based in Moscow, Jerusalem, Beirut and London. He arrived in the Middle East in 2011 as the Arab Spring was ignited, among the first correspondents in Cairo as the revolution there exploded. He covered the Libyan revolution and made many trips into Syria to report on the war, from both the regime and rebel sides. Marquardt was deeply involved in the coverage of the growing migrant crisis and terror attacks in Europe from 2015 onwards.

Before his international posts, Marquardt was a political reporter with CNN during the 2008 presidential election. Marquardt has won Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards. He graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service after growing up Europe and the Middle East.