The Globalist

Professor of History, University of California, Irvine Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is a Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine — and the author, most recently, of “China’s Brave New World: And Other Tales for Global Times,” which was published by Indiana University Press in May 2007. A regular contributor to academic journals, he […]

Julia Watson is an award-winning cookbook writer and blogger of “Tabled,” a blog with recipes and curious facts about big food business.

Asia Environment Correspondent, The Guardian Jonathan Watts is Asia environment correspondent for The Guardian and a former president of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China. He is author of the eco-travelogue “When a Billion Chinese Jump,” which traces the course of China’s development from mountain jungles and melting glaciers, through coal mines and cancer villages, […]

Cultural anthropologist and professor at Macalester College Jack Weatherford is a cultural anthropologist who has been teaching Anthropology at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota since 1983. Studying tribal cultures, he has worked with contemporary groups in Bolivia and the Amazon — and focused on the impact of the American Indians on world history. Mr. […]

Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. He began his first term in January 1997 — and in June 2001 the General Assembly appointed him to a second term of office ending in December 2006. Mr. Annan was born in Kumasi, Ghana on April 8, 1938. He […]

AP Bureau Chief, Iran Between 1986 and 2005, Kathy Gannon was a correspondent for the Associated Press in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She is currently the Iran Bureau Chief-designate. Her work has been published in Foreign Affairs and The New Yorker. “I is for Infidel” — on the history and politics of Afghanistan during her years […]

Senior Economist at Environmental Defense Korinna Horta is a senior environmental economist in the international program of Environmental Defense, a leading U.S. non-profit organization representing 300,000 members. Ms. Horta, who is based in both Washington and Lisbon, works with non-governmental organizations and policymakers around the world to promote socially equitable and environmentally sustainable development. Ms. […]

Kent Hughes, Public Policy Fellow, and former director of the Program on America and the Global Economy.

Independent Writer and Producer Most recently, Kelly Jones was the senior associate producer of NPR’s program The Connection, produced at WBUR in Boston. A 2004 Media Fellow with the Japan Society of New York, she is currently writing a book and producing a series of radio stories about the clash of globalization and tradition at […]

Founder and Managing Director of Ohmae & Associates Kenichi Ohmae is founder and Managing Director of Ohmae & Associates, Jasdic Park, EveryD.com, Inc., Business Breakthrough and Ohmae Business Developments, Inc. For a period of 23 years, Dr. Ohmae was a partner in McKinsey & Company, Inc., the international management consulting firm. He co-founded the firm’s […]