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KENNETH COOPER
National editor, The Boston Globe
Former South Asia bureau chief, The Washington Post

KENNETH COOPER is national editor of The Boston Globe.

Until 2000, he was with The Washington Post, having served as a national education writer, and the South Asia Bureau chief. He covered India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka from 1996-1999. He won a 1999 SAJA Journalism Award for his March 1998 report on the Taliban's spiritual roots in Deoband, India.

Cooper joined The Post in 1989 as a reporter covering education and Congress for national news.

While working at The Boston Globe in 1984, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for special local reporting on a series about racism in Boston, "The Race Factor." His contributions to the 13-part series examined affirmative action at private colleges in the Boston area and compared race relations in the city to those of Philadelphia and Miami.