Anna Fifield was a foreign correspondent for international newspapers for 20 years, writing for the Financial Times and the Washington Post on postings in Seoul, Tehran, Beirut, Washington DC, Tokyo and, most recently, Beijing. She was a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University in 2013-14 and was awarded Stanford University's Shorenstein Prize in 2018 for her reporting on Asia. Her highly acclaimed book "The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong-Un" has been translated into 24 languages.
She returned to New Zealand last year to become the editor of the Dominion Post in Wellington and is now the Asia-Pacific Editor for The Washington Post.