The Globalist

Former U.S. Trade Representative Carla A. Hills is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hills & Company, International Consultants, which advises companies on global trade and investment issues, particularly in the emerging markets. Ambassador Hills served as U.S. Trade Representative (1989-93), in which capacity she was President Bush’s principal advisor on international trade policy. Ambassador […]

Medicinal chemist, Chemocentryx Cheng Hu is a medicinal chemist at Chemocentryx, a biotech company based in Mountain View, California. Before he joined Chemocentryx, he was a development chemist in Discovery Partners International in South San Francisco from 2002 to 2005. Cheng came to the United States in 2001 because he was inspired by the original […]

President of the Japan Policy Research Institute Chalmers Johnson is president of the Japan Policy Research Institute. He is professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times and The Nation. Mr. Johnson has written over a dozen books, including “The Sorrows of Empire,” “MITI and […]

Deputy Director of Area Studies and Coordinator for European Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. State Department Carl Lankowski serves as Deputy Director of Area Studies and Coordinator for European Area Studies at the U.S. State Department’s diplomatic academy, the Foreign Service Institute. Previously, from September 1995 through August 2000, Mr. Lankowski was […]

Member of the German Bundestag Cem Oezdemir is a member of the German Bundestag. When first elected to the Bundestag in 1994, he became the first son of Turkish emigrants ever to hold office in Germany’s lower house of Parliament. Mr. Oezdemir joined the German Green Party in 1981, the same year he became a […]

EU Commissioner for External Relations Trained as a historian, Chris Patten started his political career in 1966 with the Conservative Party’s Research Department. He entered parliament in 1979, the year Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister. Subsequently, he climbed up the ranks of the British Conservative Party — and made it to the position of […]

Director of the International Economics Program at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies Charles Pearson has served as Director of the International Economics Program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) since 1987. In addition, he has worked as Senior Staff Economist on the Commission on International Trade and Investment, as […]

Staff Researcher, Earth Policy Institute, Washington, D.C. Danielle Murray is a staff researcher at the Earth Policy Institute in Washington, DC. Ms. Murray graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Human Biology and a concentration in International Development and the Environment. She uses her background in human health, international affairs and environmental science to […]

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel B. Poneman is the U.S. deputy secretary of energy and is chief operating office of the U.S. Department of Energy. He was nominated to that post by President Barack Obama in April 2009 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate the following month. Mr. Poneman first joined the Department of […]

Associate Professor of History, Indiana University South Bend Mr. Shlapenthok was born in Ukraine in the former USSR and graduated from Moscow State University. He emigrated to the United States in 1979 and received his MA in Russian/European History from Michigan State University and his PhD in Russian/European History from the University of Chicago. He […]