Alexandra Sharp is the World Brief writer at Foreign Policy. Prior to writing World Brief, she worked as a deputy copy editor at FP; a city life editor at Vox Magazine in Columbia, Missouri; and as an editor at Genocide Watch. A Chicago native, she studied magazine journalism and international studies at the University of Missouri and reported in Costa Rica on climate change, immigration, and energy.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during a press conference, as South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor looks on, at the BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting in Cape Town, South Africa.
