Hugh David Scott Greenway, born on May 5, 1935, is an American journalist and foreign affairs correspondent whose distinguished career spans several decades of global conflict reporting. He has worked extensively for prominent media outlets, including Time Life, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, establishing a reputation for his deeply reported, on-the-ground dispatches from war zones around the world.
Throughout his career, Greenway has covered major international conflicts across multiple continents. His reporting has taken him to active war zones in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Pakistan, Burma, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Bosnia, and Croatia. In addition to his primary editorial roles, his articles, columns, and essays have been featured in prestigious publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, the Columbia Journalism Review, and the Italian daily newspaper la Repubblica.
Currently, Greenway continues to contribute to the field of international relations as a columnist for Foreign Affairs. He is also an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations, reflecting his long-standing engagement with global politics, journalism, and foreign policy.
