Susan Deborah Chira (born in New York City) is an American journalist. She has been foreign editor of The New York Times since 2004.

She was raised in Rye, NY and attended Phillips Andover Academy, in Andover, MA, where she graduated in 1976. She received her BA at Harvard University in 1980, graduating summa cum laude. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

While at Harvard, she was the president of the Harvard Crimson.

Chira joined The New York Times in 1981. She was the Times 's correspondent and then bureau chief in Tokyo from 1984 to 1989.

She has also been:

• metropolitan reporter at bureaus in Albany and Stamford
• national education correspondent
• deputy editor, Foreign desk
• editor, The Week in Review
• editorial director of book development

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