Kevin Gray is a senior writer at Conde Nast Portfolio magazine, which he joined in July 2006 to help prepare for the magazine’s launch in May 2007. Prior to joining Portfolio, Gray served as articles editor and senior features writer at Details, where he covered business, politics and international affairs. Since joining Details in 2000 to assist in its re-launch, Gray has traveled the globe covering stories on several different continents.

In the past six years, this has meant, among other things, tracking down Joseph Kabila, the 32-year-old president of the Congo, for an exclusive interview; infiltrating a sex slave trafficking ring in Romania; and getting caught in a shoot-out as he interviewed the new police chief of a drug-plagued Mexican border town. Gray has driven a motorcycle across Mongolia, and written about Mongolia’s homeless orphans; gone to Vietnam with the U.S. Army to dig up the remains of dead servicemen; chronicled the rise of the Falun Gong in China; profiled a group of violent white supremacists in South Africa; and traveled to Libya to interview Saif Gaddafi, Moamar Gaddafi’s son and likely successor.

Prior to joining Details, Gray worked at CNN as a business producer on the show Business Unusual with Lou Dobbs. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, USA Today, The Washington Post, People and Newsweek. Gray is a graduate of the University of Michigan. He also holds a master’s degree in English from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.