Whit Mason
Non-Resident Fellow
Whit Mason has lived and worked outside his native US since 1989. He reported for newspapers from Siberia and the Russian Far East, was a staff writer at Asiaweek magazine in Hong Kong, and reported for CBS News from Bosnia and South Korea. As a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs, Whit lived in Istanbul for three years and wrote about the nexus between religion and politics in Turkey, Iran and the southern Balkans for three years. He worked in Kosovo first for the International Crisis Group and then as a speechwriter and adviser to the head of the UN mission, about which he co-authored a critically acclaimed book, Peace at Any Price: How the World Failed Kosovo. He led a large media development project in Azerbaijan and was communications and outreach director for USAID in Pakistan and in 2008 was the UN’s justice coordinator for southern Afghanistan. Together with Anthony Bubalo and Greg Fealy he is co-author of Lowy Institute Paper 25, Zealous Democrats: Islamism and democracy in Egypt, Indonesia and Turkey.
Whit has an undergraduate degree in the comparative history of ideas from the University of Washington, a master's in international relations from Cambridge and is completing a PhD at the UNSW Faculty of Law, where he is a founding member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law. He has spoken on international relations at many prestigious institutions, including NATO, the UN's Division of Peacekeeping Operations, the Swedish University, the Wilson Centre for Scholars and Harvard University. He is a regular contributor to media in Australia and internationally.
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