Mr. Ronald Elving
Ron Elving is the Senior Washington Editor for National Public Radio, where he directs coverage of the capital and of national politics. He was previously the political editor for USA Today and for Congressional Quarterly.
Mr. Elving also writes a regular website column for NPR and has been published by the Brookings Institution, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Media Studies Journal and the American Political Science Association.
His book, Conflict and Compromise: How Congress Makes the Law, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1995 and is now a Touchstone paperback. He has also been a contributing author or editor for more than a dozen reference works published by Congressional Quarterly Press.
Mr. Elving has been an adjunct professor in the Graduate Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University and an adjunct professor in the School of Communication at American University. He has been an election night commentator on the PBS “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” and a returning guest on CNN and several other cable TV networks.
He came to Washington in 1984 as a Congressional Fellow with the American Political Science Association and worked for two years as a staff member in the House and Senate before joining CQ in 1987.
He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford and master’s degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of California -- Berkeley.
He lives in Washington D.C. with his wife, Belle, and daughter, Kelsey.