Stuart Reid

Senior Fellow for History and Foreign Policy

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Stuart Reid is a senior fellow for history and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is the author of The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination. The book, published by Knopf in 2023, was named an editors’ choice by The New York Times Book Review, made the year-end best books lists of The New Yorker, The Economist, and the Financial Times, and was shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize.

Before becoming a CFR fellow, Reid was an executive editor at Foreign Affairs, where he worked from 2008 to 2024. He has written for publications including The Atlantic, New York Times,  Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, Politico Magazine, and Slate. He has a BA in government from Dartmouth College. He was born in Ontario, grew up in Ohio, and now lives in New Jersey with his wife and children.

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