Lally Graham WEYMOUTH

Senior Associate Editor, the Washington Post

Elizabeth “Lally” Graham Weymouth is a well-known American journalist who serves as Senior Associate Editor of the Washington Post. She previously served as Special Diplomatic Correspondent of Newsweek magazine. She has been conducting interviews with world leaders for over 25 years. Recent exclusive interviews include: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto？lu; Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos; Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk and President Petro Poroshenko; Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet; Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi (then Minister of Defense); Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong; Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan; Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto; Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban; Myanmar’s President Thein Sein; and former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran. Mrs. Weymouth graduated from Radcliffe College with honors. She is the author of America in 1876: The Way We Were, which was published by Random House. She currently serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York.