Nicholas Kulish

Nicholas Kulish is an investigative reporter covering immigration issues. His recent work has focused on the Saudi Arabian royal family, the Islamic State and U.S. Special Operations forces. Before that, he served as Berlin bureau chief and East Africa correspondent based in Nairobi.

He has won the George Polk Award for military reporting for a series about Navy SEALs and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting as part of a team covering the Islamic State.

He joined the Times as a member of the Editorial Board in 2005, where he wrote about the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. As a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, he covered the Florida recount and the invasion of Iraq. He is the author of a novel, "Last One In," and co-author of the nonfiction book "The Eternal Nazi."

A native of Arlington, Va., he is a graduate of Columbia University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin.