Richard Engel

Richard Engel
Engel at the Peabody Award, May 2015
Born	(1973-09-16) September 16, 1973 (age 43) New York City, New York, U.S.
Education	Stanford University
Occupation	Correspondent
Title	NBC News Chief foreign correspondent
Spouse(s)	Mary Forrest (May 2015–present; 1 child)

Richard Engel (born September 16, 1973) is an American journalist and author who is NBC News' chief foreign correspondent. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008, after being the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Engel was the first broadcast journalist recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary".

Prior to joining NBC News in May 2003, he covered the start of the 2003 war in Iraq from Baghdad for ABC News as a freelance journalist. He speaks and reads Arabic fluently and is also fluent in Italian and Spanish. Engel wrote the book A Fist in the Hornet's Nest, published in 2004, about his experience covering the Iraq War from Baghdad. His newest book, War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq, published in June 2008, picks up where his last book left off.

Engel is known for having covered the Iraq War, the Arab Spring and the Syrian civil war.

Engel grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. He has an older brother who is a cardiologist at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. His father, Peter, a former Goldman Sachs financier, and mother Nina, who ran an antiques store, feared for their son's future prospects because of his dyslexia. His father is Jewish while his mother is Swedish.