Sonni Efron is a Washington-based journalist specializing in foreign policy and national security issues and serves as a Senior Fellow for Globalsecurity.org.

A graduate of University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Oriental Languages and a Knight Fellow at Standford University from 2001-2002, Ms. Efron won the 2008 Scripps Howard Walker Stone Award for a collection of editorials on U.S. foreign policy challenges.

Ms. Efron has broad experience including:

• Los Angeles Times 1989-2008:
  • Member, editorial board, May 2007-Sept. 2008. Wrote editorials primarily on U.S. foreign policy, national security and global affairs.
  • Articles editor, op-ed page, Oct. 2005-May 2007; also wrote editorials and op-eds.
  • Diplomatic reporter, Washington Bureau, covering the State Department, National Security Council, USAID and major foreign policy issues, July 2002-Oct 2005.
  • Tokyo bureau chief, 1997-1999, responsible for coverage of Japan, North Korea and South Korea and assignments elsewhere in Asia, including Cambodia and Timor; Tokyo bureau correspondent, 1996-97
  • Moscow bureau correspondent 1993-95.
  • Reporter, Metro section, Orange County Edition, 1989-92; special assignments in Kuwait, 1991, U.S. presidential campaign, 1992, and Japan, 1992.
• The Associated Press, reporter, Boston bureau, 1988-89.
• Lawrence (Massachusetts) Eagle-Tribune, reporter, 1985-89.
• Energy User News (New York) reporter, associate editor, managing editor, 1984-85.
• Sanrio Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, translator and interpreter, 1981-83.