The Globalist

Writer Frederick Stakelbeck is a freelance writer who focuses primarily on the implications of emerging bilateral and trilateral relationships for U.S. national security. His areas of expertise include China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela and Israel. Mr. Stakelbeck has worked for the past five years in the financial services industry. His professional background includes ten years at […]

NATO’s former Secretary General Lord George Robertson is former NATO secretary general, serving from 1999 to 2003. Previously, he was British Defense Secretary from 1997 to 1999 and a Member of the British Parliament from 1978 to 1999. Currently, Lord Robertson is Deputy Chairman at Cable & Wireless. George Islay MacNeill Robertson was born in […]

Freelance Journalist/Author Lutz C. Kleveman is a freelance journalist and author who lives in New York and at Gut Ankeloh, Germany. Born in Germany in 1974, Mr. Kleveman studied French Literature in Aix-en-Provence, France and International History at the London School of Economics. He has worked for CNN and German Television ZDF in Washington, D.C. […]

Professor of City Planning at San Diego State University Lawrence A. Herzog is a writer, photographer and college professor from the United States who has been residing in Mexico since January 2001. Mr. Herzog has lived in Mexico intermittently, but his permanent home is San Diego, California, where he is a professor of city planning […]

Author, Columnist, Consultant Frida Ghitis heads International Insights, Inc. an international consulting firm. She is also the author of “The End of Revolution: A Changing World in the Age of Live Television.” Previously, she spent more than 15 years at CNN as a correspondent, producer and unit manager. She has worked in more than 50 […]

Editor in Chief of Mail & Guardian Ferial Haffajee assumed the position of Editor in Chief of Mail & Guardian (M&G) in February 2004. She is the newspaper’s fifth editor — and the first woman in that position. Previously, she has worked at Financial Mail as Senior Editor responsible for political reporting — and as […]

Fiona Hill is the director of the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe.

Research Fellow at the U.S. Business & Industrial Council Educational Foundation Alan Tonelson is a Research Fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Council Educational Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based research organization studying U.S. economic, national security, and technology policy. Tonelson is also a columnist for the Foundation’s globalization website, Tradealert.org and a Research Associate at […]

Director, Research & Innovation, BSR Faris Natour is the director of Research & Innovation at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR). Faris took the helm in June 2008 as director of BSR’s growing research team, which produces independent, business-critical research to help companies anticipate emerging trends and implement sustainability strategies. Faris, who now focuses on the […]

Professor of Economics at the University of Linz Friedrich Schneider is Professor of Economics at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. He was President of the Austrian Economic Association from 1997 to 1999 — and became an IMF Research Fellow in 1998. His research interests include economic theory of politics, finance and economic policy. His […]