Shashank Bengali

Shashank Bengali is Southeast Asia correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and opened the newspaper's Singapore bureau in 2018. A foreign correspondent and editor for 15 years, he has reported from more than 60 countries and covered wars, elections, natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. He joined the Times in 2012 to cover foreign affairs in Washington and then moved to Mumbai as South Asia bureau chief. He previously worked at McClatchy Newspapers, where he served as a correspondent in Africa and the Middle East and as an editor overseeing national security coverage in Washington. In 2016 he and a team of Times reporters won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California. Shashank holds bachelor's degrees in journalism and French from the University of Southern California and a Master's degree in public policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.