The Globalist

Chief Executive Officer, Swiss Re Americas J. Eric Smith is chief executive officer of Swiss Re Americas, a reinsurance and financial services company. Before joining Swiss Re in July 2011, he had been president of the USAA Life Insurance Co. and president of Allstate Financial Services. Before Allstate, he had spent over 20 years with […]

Deputy Director of the International Security Program at CSIS Julianne Smith is a fellow and deputy director of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Before coming to CSIS, Ms. Smith worked at the German Marshall Fund as a program officer on the Foreign Policy program. Prior to this position, […]

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, […]

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

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 […]

Associate Professor of History, New York University Joanna Waley-Cohen, a graduate of Cambridge and Yale Universities, has taught Chinese history at New York University since 1992. In addition to her work on China’s historical relationship with other states and civilizations, she is author of “Exile in mid-Qing China: Banishment to Xinjiang, 1758-1820,” as well as […]

British freelance journalist, Valparaiso, Chile Justin Vogler is a British freelance journalist based in Valparaiso, Chile. His work is focused on democratization and integration in South America. Previously, he spent 12 years traveling and working on development projects in South East Asia and Latin America — and speaks French, Spanish and Portuguese. He is also […]

Freelance journalist Julie Thompson is a freelance journalist from New Zealand who currently works with the Global Volunteer Network. The Global Volunteer Network (GVN) is a private, Non Government Organization (NGO) based in Wellington, New Zealand. GVN connects people with communities in need by supporting the work of local community organizations in countries through the […]

Curator of Fashion and Costumes, Centraal Museum Utrecht Jose Teunissen has been the Fashion and Costumes curator at the Centraal Museum Utrecht since 1998. In addition, she has been a lecturer in fashion design at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts (ArtEZ Modelectoraat) since 2002. Her publications include Mode in Beweging: Van modeprent naar modejournaal […]

Professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Business and former World Bank Chief Economist Mr. Stiglitz served as a World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President in development economics from 1997 to 1999. Prior to that, he served on President Clinton’s economic team as chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors from 1993 to […]