Patrick Radden Keefe is a writer who focuses on intelligence, international security, immigration, and the globalization of crime. He is the author of CHATTER: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping (Random House, 2005), and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and Slate.

Patrick grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts and went to Columbia College. He received a Masters in International Relations from Cambridge University, a Masters in New Media and Information Systems from the London School of Economics, and a JD from Yale Law School.

He is a Fellow at The Century Foundation, a progressive policy think tank in New York City, and a Project Leader at the World Policy Institute. His articles and Op-Eds have appeared in the New Yorker, Slate, the New York Times Magazine and Op-Ed page, the New York Review of Books, Legal Affairs, the Boston Globe, WIRED, and other publications.

The recipient of a Marshall Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Patrick is currently working on a book about human smuggling between China and the United States, to be published by Doubleday in 2009.