# Laura Silber

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**Laura Silber** is the Vice President for Advocacy and Communications at the [Open Society Foundations](/source/Open_Society_Foundations), where she runs the Communications department and oversees advocacy strategy and public identity.[1] Since 2007 she has been an adjunct professor at [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University)'s School of International and Public Affairs.[2]

Prior to joining the Open Society Foundations in 2000, Silber was a contributing writer at *Talk* magazine. She covered the [United Nations](/source/United_Nations) for the *[Financial Times](/source/Financial_Times)* from 1997-99. She was also a visiting scholar at the Remarque Institute at [New York University](/source/New_York_University). From 1990-1997, she was the [Balkans](/source/Balkans) correspondent for the *Financial Times* and covered [Yugoslavia](/source/Yugoslavia)'s violent disintegration.

She is the co-author, with [Allan Little](/source/Allan_Little), of *Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation* (published as *The Death of Yugoslavia* outside of the United States), which was selected for the *New York Times* notable book list. She was a consultant to the [accompanying 1995 BBC television documentary series](/source/The_Death_of_Yugoslavia), which won the [BAFTA](/source/BAFTA), duPont Gold Baton, and [Peabody Award](/source/Peabody_Award).[3]

The documentary indicted the Serbian and Croatian leadership, revealed their virulent nationalism, and deplored the lack of international intervention.[4] She has contributed to a wide range of publications including *The New York Times*, *The Washington Post*, *The Los Angeles Times* and *The New York Review of Books*.

Silber was a [Fulbright](/source/Fulbright) Scholar in [Yugoslavia](/source/Yugoslavia) and received a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and a [B.A.](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) from [Carleton College](/source/Carleton_College).[5] She lives in New York with her family.

## Notes

1. ["Laura Silber"](https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/who-we-are/leadership/laura-silber)

1. [Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs](http://sipa.columbia.edu)

1. [Peabody Awards: Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation](http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/yugoslavia-death-of-a-nation)

1. Stern, Frank. ["Screening Politics: Cinema and Intervention"](https://www.ciaonet.org/olj/gjia/gjia_sumfal00i.html). Retrieved 11 November 2011.

1. [Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs: Faculty Directory](https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/laura-silber)

## External links

- [Open Society Foundations](https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/)
- [Remarque Institute](https://as.nyu.edu/remarque.html)

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