Louisa Loveluck is an award-winning foreign correspondent whose reporting has repeatedly broken through official narratives to reveal how war and political power are experienced by ordinary people. Known for producing deeply sourced investigations from some of the world’s most restricted environments, she has built a reputation for stories that shape international coverage and accountability debates.

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting, Louisa's work has also been honoured with the Overseas Press Club of America’s Shireen Abu Akleh Award and the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Courage in Journalism Award. Over almost a decade as a staff writer for The Washington Post, she led major investigations into abuses by Israeli forces in Gaza and Russian troops in Ukraine, producing authoritative coverage at moments of intense global scrutiny. From 2019 to 2023, she served as the Post’s Baghdad Bureau Chief, directing coverage across Iraq during a period of political upheaval, protest movements, economic crisis, and climate stress, while reporting on the lasting consequences of the U.S.-led invasion.

Previously based in Beirut, Louisa covered the Syrian war and produced groundbreaking investigations into the regime’s system of detention and enforced disappearance—reporting that helped document one of the largest unresolved human rights crimes of the 21st century.

Over more than a decade reporting across the Middle East, Louisa's journalism has combined investigative depth, narrative precision, and on-the-ground reporting to deliver scoops, accountability reporting, and definitive coverage of complex global crises.