Alexander Marquardt is an award winning journalist based in Washington, D.C. Alexander Marquardt is a Senior National Security Correspondent at CNN, where he covers National security issues.^[4]

Alexander Marquardt graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. ^[4]

Alexander Marquardt began his career as an NBC Page before starting out in journalism as an anchor at Channel One News. ^{[6] [4]}

Prior to rejoining CNN in 2017, Alexander Marquardt was a foreign Correspondent for ABC News. While at ABC News, he led the network’s international coverage from front lines, uprisings, terror attacks and natural disaster around the world. For almost ten years, he was based in Beirut, Jerusalem, and Moscow, Russia. ^[6]

In 2012 and 2014, he was among the first journalist to go into the Gaza Strip to cover the war with Israel. He also reported extensively on the the refugee and migrant crisis in the Middle East and Europe, and on Russia’s military actions in Ukraine. ^[6]

Before his overseas Career, Marquardt was an "embed" reporter with CNN during the 2008 presidential election. He traveled with and covered a number of candidates, including then-Senators Obama, Biden, and Clinton, as well as Governors Romney and Huckabee.^[4]

Alexander Marquardt has won Emmy awards for reporting from Libya and an undercover operation into underage sex trafficking in the Philippines (country), which also won an Edward R. Murrow Award. He also received an Emmy nomination for reporting from the Mediterranean Sea on refugee and migrant. ^[6]

As of May 2020, Marquardt has over 32,000 followers on his Twitter account, where he comments on current political events. He also has over 37,000 followers on his Instagram, where he posts his work photos, as well as photos with friends and family.^[3][1]