Marvin L. Kalb is a renowned American journalist. He was the founding director of the Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. In his over 30-year broadcast career at CBS News and NBC News, he was Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, Moscow Bureau Chief, and moderator of Meet the Press.

Kalb has authored or co-authored more than 17 nonfiction books and two best-selling novels, including “The Year I was Peter the Great” (2017) and "Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, the Threat to American Democracy" (2018), and Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War (2021).

Kalb has a B.A. from the City College of New York and a Master's Degree from Harvard University. Among his many honors are two Peabody Awards, the DuPont Prize from Columbia University, the 2006 Fourth Estate Award from the National Press Club and more than a half-dozen Overseas Press Club awards.