Philip Bennett is the managing editor at The Washington Post. As the second-ranking editor at The Post, Bennett supervises more than eight hundred journalists in a newsroom that produces one of the country’s leading daily newspapers and contributes to washingtonpost.com, a web site with a large national and international audience. Before his appointment as managing editor in 2005, Bennett was The Post’s assistant managing editor for foreign news. He was responsible for the newspaper’s 20 international bureaus. Under his direction, The Post’s foreign staff won many awards, including two Pulitzer prizes for international reporting, most recently for coverage of the war in Iraq. Bennett joined The Post in 1997 as a deputy national editor for coverage of national security, defense, and foreign policy. He came to the paper from the Boston Globe, where he was a foreign correspondent in Latin America and, later, the Globe’s foreign editor. He has also written for numerous magazines. He started in journalism as a reporter for The Lima Times in Peru. His first work for The Washington Post was as a stringer from Peru in 1982. Bennett grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated with a degree in history from Harvard.