The Globalist

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 […]

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 […]

Author Jack Turner was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1968. He received his B.A. in Classical Studies from Melbourne University and his Ph.D. in International Relations from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and MacArthur Foundation Junior Research Fellow. He lives with his wife, Helena, and their son in Geneva. This is his first […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]