Damien Cave appointed as the New York Times Vietnam Bureau Chief and Global Affairs Correspondent

Damien Cave, OPC Foundation Scholar Award winner in 1998 and formerly bureau chief in Australia for the New York Times, is moving to Ho Chi Minh City to open the Times’ first bureau in Vietnam since 1975.

Cave has spent most of the past 20 years as a correspondent for the Times based in Baghdad, Miami, Mexico City and Sydney, and spent lengthy stints reporting from many other places, including Lebanon, India, Taiwan, Turkey and Cuba.

He is the author of Parenting Like an Australian: One Family’s Quest to Fight Fear and Dive into a Better, Braver Life.