Alexander Marquardt

Alex Marquardt is the network's Senior National Security Correspondent based in CNN's Washington bureau, focusing on national security issues. Marquardt spent most of the past decade as an award-winning foreign correspondent for ABC News based in Moscow, Jerusalem, Beirut and London. Marquardt has won Emmy, Edward R. Murrow and Gracie awards, notably for an undercover investigation of underage sex trafficking in the Philippines. Marquardt got into journalism first as an NBC Page and then later as an anchor for Channel One News. He graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service after growing up Europe and the Middle East.