2025 Robert W. van de Velde Jr. '75 Memorial Lecture-"Actually, you *do* trust the mainstream media."

Olivier Knox is Senior National Correspondent at U.S. News and World Report, where he has written about national politics and foreign policy since June 2024. Before that, he worked at The Washington Post, SiriusXM, Yahoo News, and 15 years at Agence France-Presse. Throughout his three-decade career, he has focused on Congress and the White House, traveled the world on Air Force One, interviewed presidents and lawmakers and, crucially, talked to knowledgeable staff as he tried to tell readers and listeners all over the world what was really happening and how it might affect their lives. He has served as the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association.  Olivier was born in Burlington and spent his formative years on the Middlebury Campus and in Paris, France. He discovered his desire to major in political science while auditing a U.S. government class in Twilight Hall.