Yaroslav Trofimov, editor of Afghanistan and Pakistan for The Wall Street Journal, and Paul Beckett, Asia editor of the paper, sent out the following staff announcement on Tuesday:
We are delighted to announce that Margherita Stancati is joining the Afghanistan and Pakistan bureau of The Wall Street Journal as a correspondent. She will be based in Kabul, covering that country’s critical security and political transition as U.S.-led coalition forces withdraw and President Karzai’s successor is elected next year.
She will report to Yaroslav and work closely with Nathan Hodge, who becomes Senior Correspondent in the bureau, and with Saeed Shah, the Journal’s correspondent based in Islamabad.
Margherita, a graduate of Oxford University, speaks Persian in addition to her native Italian. She worked in Iran before joining the Journal first as a news assistant in Rome, and then as the editor of India Real Time in New Delhi.
Please join us in congratulating Margherita on her new role.
