Jim Sciutto

Jim Sciutto is Chief National Security Correspondent for CNN, reporting and providing analysis on all aspects of U.S. national security, including foreign policy, the military, terrorism, and the intelligence community, a position he took on in September 2013. Prior to that, he was a political appointee of President Obama working on foreign affairs. Also, he served as an American diplomat in Beijing, as Chief of Staff for US Ambassador Gary Locke. He was formerly ABC News' Senior Foreign correspondent, based in London and the author of Against Us: The New Face of America's Enemies in the Muslim World.

Sciutto attended Regis High School in New York City. Sciutto is a 1992 graduate of Yale University, and majored in Chinese history. Sciutto began his career in television as the moderator and the producer of a Public Broadcasting Service program, The Student Press, a weekly public affairs talk show aimed at college students. Sciutto was the Hong Kong correspondent for Asia Business News, and covered the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. Sciutto also covered stories in China, Mongolia, Laos, Vietnam, Singapore, and South Korea. He joined ABC News in 1998, working in Chicago before moving to Washington D.C. to cover the Pentagon. In 2006, Sciutto was named Senior Foreign Correspondent, ABC's lead reporter on foreign stories. Sciutto has travelled to and covered stories in 50 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, including more than a dozen assignments each in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran. Sciutto was the only American journalist to embed with U.S. Special Forces during the Iraq invasion, to report from inside Myanmar during the government crackdown in Fall 2007, and to file from inside Zimbabwe during the election crisis in April 2008.

Sciutto attended the Jesuit college preparatory school Regis High School in Manhattan and graduated from Yale University cum laude. He is married to ABC News Correspondent Gloria Riviera.

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