Elizabeth Becker

Elizabeth Becker

Elizabeth Becker, award-winning author and reporter, has been covering foreign affairs and development issues for 40 years, as a New York Times correspondent, the senior foreign editor of National Public Radio overseeing the network's global coverage, and beginning as a war correspondent in Cambodia for the Washington Post. She first interviewed Hillary Clinton in 1992 during the Democratic presidential primary. Becker serves on the board of Oxfam America.

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Global development’s star player hangs up her jersey

Global development’s star player hangs up her jersey

about 13 years ago // Exclusive feature: Hillary Clinton’s legacy

Few U.S. secretaries of state have reached the iconic stature of Hillary Rodham Clinton. But will the push she gave to international development be enough to carry forward even after she leaves office? An analysis of Clinton’s legacy on foreign aid, based on interviews with her peers and former top aid officials, with admirers and critics.