Jeffrey E. Stern
US Board Member
Jeffrey E. Stern is an award winning journalist and author. Stern has written four books, including The 15:17 to Paris, which was turned into a major motion picture by Clint Eastwood and Warner Brothers, The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War, and The Last Thousand, which received honorable mention for best book of the Year by Library Journal.
He has reported from Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, Kashmir, the epicenter of the west African Ebola outbreak, and Oklahoma’s death row. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and other outlets.
In 2019, he received the Overseas Press Club award for the best human rights reporting in any medium, and the Amnesty International award for foreign reporting.
Stern sits on the board of the Bamyan Foundation, which supports education for at-risk groups in Afghanistan. He received his bachelor's degree from Duke University and master's in international relations from Stanford University.