Philip P. Pan is the weekend editor for the New York Times, a former foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, and that newspaper's former bureau chief in Beijing and Moscow. He lived in China for more than a decade and his work has been recognized with the Livingston Award for international reporting, an Overseas Press Club award and the Asia Society’s Osborn Elliott Prize for excellence in journalism about Asia. Before going overseas, he covered crime and immigration in the United States. Born and raised in New Jersey, he is a graduate of Harvard College and studied Mandarin at Peking University.