The Globalist

Author, The Sushi Economy Sasha Issenberg is a journalist based in Philadelphia — and the author of “The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy,” — a non-fiction exploration of the international culture and business around sushi, published in May 2007. Over two years, Issenberg traveled to fourteen countries on five continents, […]

Freelance journalist Sara Hussein is a British-Egyptian journalist living in Washington, D.C. Her expertise includes U.S. foreign policy, the "war on terror," international human rights law and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Previously, she has worked in and reported from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, covering the settler movement and the 2005 disengagement process. She has […]

Research associate at the Worldwatch Institute Seth Dunn is a Research Associate and climate/energy team coleader at Worldwatch. He has coauthored four chapters in the State of the World annual, as well as Worldwatch Paper 138, Rising Sun, Gathering Winds: Policies to Stabilize the Climate and Strengthen Economies, Worldwatch Paper 151, Micropower: The Next Electrical […]

2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi arrived in Tehran when she was one year old — and has since been a resident of the Iranian capital. She completed her education at the Tehran University, studying at the Faculty of Law beginning in 1965. After Dr. Ebadi received her law degree, she began to serve […]

Washington-based lawyer Susan Flaherty is Corporate and Tax Counsel, Roha & Flaherty, Washington, D.C. In addition to enjoying her law practice devoted to non-profit sector organizations worldwide, she has a keen interest in travel. Having visited over 25 countries, she has also pedaled over 20,000 miles on a bicycle in China, New Zealand, Europe, Canada […]

Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations Stephen Flynn is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former member of the National Security Council. Mr. Flynn is a retired U.S. Coast Guard commander, and an expert on homeland security […]

Contributing Editor, Newsweek International Stephen Glain is a contributing editor for Newsweek International. His book, “Mullahs, Merchants, and Militants: The Economic Collapse of the Arab World,” was named by “The Globalist” as the top book of 2004. From 1998 to 2001, Glain was “The Wall Street Journal’s” Middle East correspondent based in Amman, Jordan. Prior […]

Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe correspondent Stephen Glain joined The Wall Street Journal in 1991. From 1998 to 2001, he was the journal’s Middle East correspondent. From his base in Amman, Jordan, he traveled to Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Egypt to provide a first-hand account of those countries’ economic challenges and prospects. […]

Shihoko Goto is Deputy Director for Geoeconomics at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a Senior Editor at The Globalist [Washington, D.C, United States]

Professor at University College London Sir Peter Hall is Professor of Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London. From 1991-1994 he was Special Adviser on Strategic Planning to the British Secretary of State for the Environment. He was member of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Urban Task Force (1998-1999). Mr. Hall […]