Keith Richburg is an American journalist and former foreign correspondent who spent more than 30 years working for The Washington Post.

He served as a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post in Southeast Asia from 1986 until 1990; in Africa from 1991 through 1994; in Hong Kong from 1995 through 2000; and in Paris from 2000 until mid-2005.

He also covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, riding a horse partway across the Hindu Kush, a journey he chronicled in The Post's Style section.

He is the author of Out of America, which detailed his experiences as a correspondent in Africa, during which he witnessed the Rwandan genocide, a civil war in Somalia, and a cholera epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo.

His selection came as media in Hong Kong were under great stress from the new National Security Law, including the closure a few months earlier of the city's leading newspaper, Apple Daily.