With his chiseled features, gray-blue eyes and well-coiffed hair, Mr. Halstead established himself quickly as a social presence in Washington starting in the late 1990s. “The old think-tank models don’t make sense anymore,” Mr. Halstead told The Washington Post in 2001. When Mr. Halstead stepped down as president in 2007, he was succeeded by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Post managing editor Steve Coll (now the dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism). In addition to his wife of 14 years, survivors include their daughter, Naya Bardach Halstead; his mother, Kate Halstead, of Waltham, Mass. After marrying, Mr. Halstead and his wife bought a catamaran and spent four years — from the spring of 2008 to the fall of 2012 — working remotely from sea with their dog Ria.

Source: Washington Post September 12, 2020 22:01 UTC