John Hudson is a national security reporter at the Washington Post covering the State Department and diplomacy. He came to this year’s Jeju Forum directly from Ukraine where he has been covering the war. In 2019, he was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service with a team at The Post that covered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. He previously covered foreign affairs for Foreign Policy magazine and BuzzFeed News, and has reported from several geopolitical hotspots, including Afghanistan, Ukraine, Pakistan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Colombia, China, and Georgia. In 2008, he covered the August war between Russia and Georgia from Tbilisi and the breakaway region of Abkhazia.