He is a senior correspondent and associate editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994.

[2] At The Post he has served as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan.

During 2003, the Post put his stories on the front page 138 times.

[3] In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies,[4] and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Chandrasekaran's 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize[5] and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction.