Dear Friend,

We are pleased to share with you that Karen Elliott House will address the ICAS Spring Symposium Veritas 2026 with a special emphasis on "The Middle East and World Affairs".

Karen Elliott House is a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of government and author of a new book, “The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia.” She is also author of an earlier book, “On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines and future” published by Knopf in 2012. Karen has traveled to and reported from Saudi Arabia for more than four decades. She retired in March 2006 as Publisher of The Wall Street Journal and Senior Vice President of Dow Jones & Company. During a 32-year career with The Wall Street Journal, Karen also served as foreign editor, diplomatic correspondent, and energy correspondent based in Washington D.C. Her journalism awards include a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for international reporting for coverage of the Middle East. Karen is a member of the board of the RAND Corp. and serves on multiple non-profit boards including the Trilateral Commission. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin where in 1996 Karen was the recipient of the University’s “Distinguished Alumnus” award. She has received honorary degrees from Boston University, Lafayette College and Pepperdine University. She is married and is the mother of four children ages 30 to 52.

Thank you.