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Vivienne Walt is an award-winning foreign correspondent, based in Paris, who has written for TIME Magazine since 2003. She has reported from about 30 countries, tracked the Arab Spring since its first stirrings, and covered the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, seeing Muammar Gaddafi close up both alive and dead in the space of a few months. She covered the Afghan War after 9/11, and later the Iraq war. Her travels have also taken her down the Congo and Niger Rivers and across much of the rest of Africa. She's covered spots across the Middle East and Europe. From Timbuktu to the Andes, her interviews have ranged from Nelson Mandela, Saif Gaddafi, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and Benazir Bhutto, to bombmakers, guerrilla fighters, CEOs and jailed criminals. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, BusinessWeek, Fortune, and others. Raised in Cape Town, she emigrated to New York City, and currently lives in Paris with her husband and their son Dashiell, who was not named for "The Incredibles" character.