Laura Silber is the Vice President for Advocacy and Communications at th
Open Society Foundations
where she runs the Communications department and oversees advocacy strategy and public identity. Since 2007 she has been an adjunct professor at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

's School of International and Public Affairs. Prior to joining the Open Society Foundations in 2000, Silber was a contributing writer at ''Talk'' magazine. She covered the

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for the ''

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'' from 1997-99. She was also a visiting scholar at the Remarque Institute at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

. From 1990-1997, she was the

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correspondent for the ''Financial Times'' and covered

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

's violent disintegration. She is the co-author, with

Allan Little James Allan Stuart Little (born 11 October 1959) is a former BBC researcher, reporter and, latterly, special correspondent. He left the BBC at the end of 2014, "to pursue other projects". Early life Little was born on 11 October 1959 in Dunragit, ...

, of ''Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation'' (published as ''The Death of Yugoslavia'' outside of the United States), which was selected for the ''New York Times'' notable book list. She was a consultant to the accompanying 1995 BBC television documentary series, which won the BAFTA, duPont Gold Baton, and

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. The documentary indicted the Serbian and Croatian leadership, revealed their virulent nationalism, and deplored the lack of international intervention. She has contributed to a wide range of publications including ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The Los Angeles Times'' and ''The New York Review of Books''. Silber was a

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Scholar in

and received a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and a

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from

Carleton College Carleton College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, it had 2,105 undergraduate students and 269 faculty members in fall 2016. The 200-acre main campus is between Northfield and the 800-acre Cowling ...

.Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs: Faculty Directory
/ref> She lives in New York with her family.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Silber, Laura Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Carleton College alumni School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni Columbia University faculty