Jeffrey Gettleman is the East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times.

He covers 12 countries and has focused much of his work on internal conflicts in Kenya, Congo, Somalia, Sudan and Ethiopia. Before this posting, Jeffrey worked for The New York Times in New Jersey, Baghdad and Atlanta. He has also been a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and the St. Petersburg Times.

He studied philosophy at Cornell and earned a master's of philosophy degree from Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has appeared as a news commentator on CNN, BBC, PBS, NPR, ABC and the Charlie Rose show. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic and GQ.

Jeffrey is 40 years old and married to Courtenay Morris. They live in Nairobi, Kenya, and have two young sons.