The Globalist

Deputy Director for Southern Growth Policies Board Carol Conway is currently Deputy Director of the Southern Growth Policies Board. This North Carolina-based organization focuses on developing and strengthening the South’s economy by providing a forum for partnership and dialog among a cross-section of the region’s governors, legislators, business and academic leaders and the economic- and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution Carol Graham is a Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development and Foreign Policy Programs at the Brookings Institution, and holds the Charles Robinson Chair in Foreign Policy Studies. She is also a College Park professor at the University of Maryland. She is the author of numerous books, including Happiness […]

Clifford G. Gaddy is a senior fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development programs.

Freelance Journalist Christina Erb is a freelance journalist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She previously worked as a business reporter for the Corridor Business Journal and as a reporter for the Gazette, the Des Moines Register and the Daily Iowan. In 2007, the Small Business Administration selected her as the best small business journalist […]

Author Christopher de Bellaigue is an author who is currently based out of Istanbul where he lives with his wife and son. After taking Persian and Indian studies at Cambridge, he has worked as a foreign correspondent for a number of publications including The Independent, The New Yorker, The Financial Times, The Economist, Granta and […]