CBS) Kimberly Dozier is CBS News correspondent who has been reporting on the war in Iraq for nearly three years. Prior to that, she was the chief correspondent for WCBS-TV New York’s Middle East bureau in Jerusalem (February 2002-August 2003), from where she covered the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the war in Iraq.
Before that, Dozier served as the London bureau chief and chief European correspondent for CBS Radio News, as well as a reporter for CBS News television (1996-2002). Her assignments included the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the crisis and refugee exodus in the Balkans, Vladimir Putin’s election, the death of Princess Diana, Northern Ireland's peace process and the Khobar barracks bombing in Dhahran. Dozier has interviewed dozens of newsmakers, including Gerry Adams and Yassir Arafat. In addition to her work for CBS Radio News, she also reported for the CBS Evening News, CBS Evening News weekend editions, The Early Show and , the Network's 24-hour news service.
Dozier was an anchor for BBC Radio World Service’s "World Update" (1996-98), an hour-long, live foreign affairs broadcast, among other programs.
While living in Cairo (1992-95), Dozier did freelance work for CBS Radio News, Christian Science Monitor Radio and Voice of America and wrote for the Washington Post, and San Francisco Chronicle. She served as a Washington, D.C.-based reporter for The Energy Daily, New Technology Week and Environment Week, covering Congressional policy and industry regulation (1988-91).
Dozier is the recipient of three American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Gracie Awards — in 2000, 2001 and 2002 — for her radio reports on Mideast violence, Kosovo and the Afghan war.
She was born on July 6, 1966, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dozier was graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in human rights and Spanish and from the University of Virginia in 1993 with a master's degree in foreign affairs, Middle East. She lives in Jerusalem.