Lisa Beyer is an assistant managing editor of TIME. She was named TIME's Nation section editor in January 2004 after overseeing TIME's World section since October 2001.

Beyer first joined TIME magazine in 1988 as a staff writer for TIME International. Two years later, in November 1990, she became an associate editor for the World section. In the fall of 1990, Beyer spent time traveling through and reporting from Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Bahrain. She contributed heavily to the magazine's Persian Gulf War coverage during that time and shortly thereafter was named TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief in September 1991.

In that position, she covered the twists and turns of the Mideast peace process, interviewing such leaders as Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak. In 1996, she was part of a TIME team awarded the Overseas Press Club award for best foreign reporting in a magazine for the magazine's coverage of the Rabin assassination.

In the fall of 2000, Beyer left Jerusalem and joined the TIME staff in New York as a Senior Editor. Her responsibilities as Society section editor included coverage of education, family, and law.

A native of Lafayette, Louisiana, Lisa was a journalism major at the University of Texas. She was also editor of the Daily Texan and worked part time for the Austin American-Statesman.

After graduation in 1983, Lisa was awarded a Henry Luce Scholarship and traveled to Hong Kong to work as a staff writer for Asiaweek. When the scholarship expired, Lisa stayed on, advancing quickly to become a correspondent and then a senior correspondent covering Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore.