Ivan Watson is an American journalist based in Hong Kong. He is CNN's senior international correspondent. ^[1]

Watson attended Brown University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in International relations.

Before joining CNN, Watson worked at NPR, where he spent eight years reporting extensively on major stories around the Middle East, Central Asia and West Africa, including the US invasion and troubled occupation of Iraq and the US-led overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001.

Prior to NPR, Watson worked as a Moscow-based producer for CNN in the late 1990's. He covered the Russian war in Chechnya and the sinking of the Kursk submarine in the Arctic, among other stories.

He speaks Russian and French.