Journalist, correspondent, editor. Son of Count Baudouin de Borchgrave d'Altena and his wife Audrey Dorothy Louise Townshend.
∼A native of Belgium, born in Brussels Arnaud de Brochgrave was a famous jounalist, award-winning editor, war correspondent and author. The child of Audrey Dorothy Louise Townshend and Count Baudouin de Borchgrave d'Altena part of the Belgium nobility - a title which he relinquished in 1951 later becoming an American citizen. He served with the British Royal Nave during WW II 1942-1946; being wounded on Juno Beach on D-day. He became Brussels bureau manager for United Press Internation in 1947. Three years later (1950) he moved up in his chosen career field transferring to Paris where he went to work for Newsweek, in 1953 becoming senior editor a position he held for 25 years. While working at Newsweek he interviewed many of the most influential people in the world, traveling worldwide and taking part as reporter and sometimes participant in 18 wars. Arnaud de Borchgrave took over as editor-in-chief of The Washington times in March 1985; December 1998 he was named President and CEO of United Press International transforming it to a digital-age entitiy in his time as CEO199-2001. Among his many awards: The George Washington Medal of Honor for Excellence in Published Works (1985), Best Magazine Reporting from Abroad (Foreign Affairs), three New York Newspaper Guild Page One Awards for foreign reporting, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Phillips Foundation (2007). He left his post with The Washington Times in 1991 to join CSIS as a senior adviser and director of the Global Organized Crime Project, which became the Transnational Threats Project after 9/11. At CSIS, he co-authored "Open Source Information: The Missing Dimension of Intelligence" (2006); "Cyber Threats and Information Security: Meeting the 21st Century Challenge" (2001); "Russian Organized Crime and Corruption: Putin’s Challenge" (2000); "Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism, Cyberwarfare: Averting an Electronic Waterloo" (1998); and "The Nuclear Black Market" (1996). He was married three times; to Dorothy Solon and Eileen Ritschel both of these ending in divorce and his third wife Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave who survies him.
∼A native of Belgium, born in Brussels Arnaud de Brochgrave was a famous jounalist, award-winning editor, war correspondent and author. The child of Audrey Dorothy Louise Townshend and Count Baudouin de Borchgrave d'Altena part of the Belgium nobility - a title which he relinquished in 1951 later becoming an American citizen. He served with the British Royal Nave during WW II 1942-1946; being wounded on Juno Beach on D-day. He became Brussels bureau manager for United Press Internation in 1947. Three years later (1950) he moved up in his chosen career field transferring to Paris where he went to work for Newsweek, in 1953 becoming senior editor a position he held for 25 years. While working at Newsweek he interviewed many of the most influential people in the world, traveling worldwide and taking part as reporter and sometimes participant in 18 wars. Arnaud de Borchgrave took over as editor-in-chief of The Washington times in March 1985; December 1998 he was named President and CEO of United Press International transforming it to a digital-age entitiy in his time as CEO199-2001. Among his many awards: The George Washington Medal of Honor for Excellence in Published Works (1985), Best Magazine Reporting from Abroad (Foreign Affairs), three New York Newspaper Guild Page One Awards for foreign reporting, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Phillips Foundation (2007). He left his post with The Washington Times in 1991 to join CSIS as a senior adviser and director of the Global Organized Crime Project, which became the Transnational Threats Project after 9/11. At CSIS, he co-authored "Open Source Information: The Missing Dimension of Intelligence" (2006); "Cyber Threats and Information Security: Meeting the 21st Century Challenge" (2001); "Russian Organized Crime and Corruption: Putin’s Challenge" (2000); "Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism, Cyberwarfare: Averting an Electronic Waterloo" (1998); and "The Nuclear Black Market" (1996). He was married three times; to Dorothy Solon and Eileen Ritschel both of these ending in divorce and his third wife Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave who survies him.
Journalist, correspondent, editor. Son of Count Baudouin de Borchgrave d'Altena and his wife Audrey Dorothy Louise Townshend.
∼A native of Belgium, born in Brussels Arnaud de Brochgrave was a famous jounalist, award-winning editor, war correspondent and author. The child of Audrey Dorothy Louise Townshend and Count Baudouin de Borchgrave d'Altena part of the Belgium nobility - a title which he relinquished in 1951 later becoming an American citizen. He served with the British Royal Nave during WW II 1942-1946; being wounded on Juno Beach on D-day. He became Brussels bureau manager for United Press Internation in 1947. Three years later (1950) he moved up in his chosen career field transferring to Paris where he went to work for Newsweek, in 1953 becoming senior editor a position he held for 25 years. While working at Newsweek he interviewed many of the most influential people in the world, traveling worldwide and taking part as reporter and sometimes participant in 18 wars. Arnaud de Borchgrave took over as editor-in-chief of The Washington times in March 1985; December 1998 he was named President and CEO of United Press International transforming it to a digital-age entitiy in his time as CEO199-2001. Among his many awards: The George Washington Medal of Honor for Excellence in Published Works (1985), Best Magazine Reporting from Abroad (Foreign Affairs), three New York Newspaper Guild Page One Awards for foreign reporting, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Phillips Foundation (2007). He left his post with The Washington Times in 1991 to join CSIS as a senior adviser and director of the Global Organized Crime Project, which became the Transnational Threats Project after 9/11. At CSIS, he co-authored "Open Source Information: The Missing Dimension of Intelligence" (2006); "Cyber Threats and Information Security: Meeting the 21st Century Challenge" (2001); "Russian Organized Crime and Corruption: Putin’s Challenge" (2000); "Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism, Cyberwarfare: Averting an Electronic Waterloo" (1998); and "The Nuclear Black Market" (1996). He was married three times; to Dorothy Solon and Eileen Ritschel both of these ending in divorce and his third wife Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave who survies him.
∼A native of Belgium, born in Brussels Arnaud de Brochgrave was a famous jounalist, award-winning editor, war correspondent and author. The child of Audrey Dorothy Louise Townshend and Count Baudouin de Borchgrave d'Altena part of the Belgium nobility - a title which he relinquished in 1951 later becoming an American citizen. He served with the British Royal Nave during WW II 1942-1946; being wounded on Juno Beach on D-day. He became Brussels bureau manager for United Press Internation in 1947. Three years later (1950) he moved up in his chosen career field transferring to Paris where he went to work for Newsweek, in 1953 becoming senior editor a position he held for 25 years. While working at Newsweek he interviewed many of the most influential people in the world, traveling worldwide and taking part as reporter and sometimes participant in 18 wars. Arnaud de Borchgrave took over as editor-in-chief of The Washington times in March 1985; December 1998 he was named President and CEO of United Press International transforming it to a digital-age entitiy in his time as CEO199-2001. Among his many awards: The George Washington Medal of Honor for Excellence in Published Works (1985), Best Magazine Reporting from Abroad (Foreign Affairs), three New York Newspaper Guild Page One Awards for foreign reporting, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Phillips Foundation (2007). He left his post with The Washington Times in 1991 to join CSIS as a senior adviser and director of the Global Organized Crime Project, which became the Transnational Threats Project after 9/11. At CSIS, he co-authored "Open Source Information: The Missing Dimension of Intelligence" (2006); "Cyber Threats and Information Security: Meeting the 21st Century Challenge" (2001); "Russian Organized Crime and Corruption: Putin’s Challenge" (2000); "Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism, Cyberwarfare: Averting an Electronic Waterloo" (1998); and "The Nuclear Black Market" (1996). He was married three times; to Dorothy Solon and Eileen Ritschel both of these ending in divorce and his third wife Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave who survies him.
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