The Globalist

Broeklundian Professor of History Edwin G. Burrows is the Broeklundian Professor of History at Brooklyn College. He won the Pulitzer Prize in History for Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. In 1964, Edwin G. Burrows received his B.A. in History from the University of Michigan — and received a Ph.D.from Columbia University […]

Director of Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations Elizabeth Economy is Director of Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and an expert on China-U.S. relations and Chinese domestic and foreign policy, with particular focus on the environment. She periodically consults for agencies of the U.S. government and has lectured or taught […]

Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Committee for Economic Development As Senior Vice President and Director of Research for the Committee for Economic Development, Dr. Ehrlich directs the research program. Prior to joining the CED, he served as Presdient of ESC Company — a consulting firm that combines economic analysis, business development and communications […]

Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University Edward F. Fischer is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, where he is also the Associate Director of the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies. He has written on subjects ranging from cross-cultural perspectives on romantic love to cultural manifestations of the global economy. Fischer’s fieldwork […]

Senior Economist, Deutsche Bank Research Eric Heymann is a Senior Economist at Deutsche Bank Research in Frankfurt, Germany. He has worked for the sector research department at Deutsche Bank Research since 1998 — and is responsible for the transport and traffic sector, the automotive industry, environmental issues and consumer goods. Mr. Heymann studied economics at […]

President of Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is Liberia’s first elected female president, as well as the first elected female leader on the continent. On 23 November 2005, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was declared the winner of the Liberian election and confirmed as the country’s next president. Previously, Ms. Johnson-Sirleaf served as Minister of Finance from 1972 to 1973, […]

Professor of Sustainable Development at INSEAD Ethan B. Kapstein is Paul Dubrule Professor of Sustainable Development at INSEAD — and a Visiting Fellow at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales. Previously, he was Stassen Professor of International Peace at the University of Minnesota, Vice President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Principal Administrator at the […]

Éloi Laurent is a senior economist at OFCE (Sciences Po Center for economic research).

Author Eugene Linden is the author of seven books and for many years wrote about global environmental issues for Time magazine. He has contributed to a numerous newspapers and journals, and in addition has won a number of journalistic awards, including the American Geophysical Union’s Walter Sullivan Award. In 2001, Mr. Linden was named as […]

Washington Bureau Chief, Financial Times Edward Luce is the Washington Bureau Chief of the Financial Times. Previously, he was the South Asia bureau chief for the Financial Times, the Philippines correspondent and capital markets editor for the Financial Times, as well as the Geneva-based correspondent for The Guardian. Between December 1999 and January 2001, Edward […]