The Globalist

Former WTO Director General and Chairman of Citigroup Switzerland Renato Ruggiero was born in Naples in 1930. After graduating with a law degree from the University of Naples in 1953, he entered the Italian diplomatic service. From 1987 to 1991, Mr. Ruggiero was Italy’s Minister for Foreign Trade. After his service in government, he joined […]

Managing Director, IMF Rodrigo de Rato assumed office as the ninth Managing Director and Chairman of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund on June 7, 2004. He will leave his post in the end of October, 2007. Prior to taking up his position at the IMF, Mr. de Rato served as the Minister […]

Author of “Travels With Herodotus” and Polish Foreign Correspondent Ryszard Kapuscinski was Poland’s most celebrated foreign correspondent. He spent four decades reporting on Asia, Latin America and Africa where he was posted in China, Poland, Iran and the Congo. Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he would like to go […]

Director of the Special Initiative on the Muslim World at the U.S. Institute of Peace and former U.S. Ambassador Ambassador Richard Kauzlarich served as U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997-1999), and Azerbaijan (1994-1997). He is currently the Director of the Special Initiative on the Muslim World at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He also […]

Author and professor of Middle East history and politics Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University. From 1987 to 2003, he was the Professor of Middle East History and Director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago, where he taught. He has also taught at […]

Associated Press Correspondent Rachel Konrad is a San Jose, California-based technology correspondent for The Associated Press. She travelled to Ecuador through her Pew Fellowship in International Journalism. Ms. Konrad covered technology for two and a half years at the tech news site News.com. Prior to that, she spent five years covering the auto industry and […]

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Senior Writer for the Chicago Tribune Richard C. Longworth is a senior writer for the Chicago Tribune specializing in international and economic news. Mr. Longworth, a former business editor and columnist for the Tribune, was a foreign correspondent for 20 years and has won the Overseas Press Club Award twice, most recently for the series […]

Senior Advisor, APCO Worldwide Riccardo Perissich is the executive vice president of the Italian branch of the Council for the United States and Italy. He is also a senior advisor at APCO Worldwide. He was the European Commission Director General for Industry from 1990 to 1994, following two decades of service to the Commission in […]

Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth School of Business Raghuram G. Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the Chicago Booth School of Business. He served as Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund between 2003 and 2006. His major research focus is on economic growth, and the role finance plays […]