Ehsanullah Amiri

Class of 2023

Ehsanullah Amiri is a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. He joined the WSJ in 2013 in Kabul, where he covered Afghanistan, from war and politics to lifestyle and elections. He covered the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 and was part of a team of WSJ reporters that was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for international reporting. Before joining the WSJ, he was a senior current affairs producer for Afghanistan’s largest news channel, TOLO NEWS TV. In that role, he led a group of anchors, setting agendas and inviting Afghan ministers, lawmakers and foreign diplomats onto the channel’s prime-time talk shows and debates. He is currently based in Toronto.