The Globalist

Reporter for the Chicago Tribune Ron Grossman is a staff reporter for the Chicago Tribune, covering the city’s ethnic neighborhoods, among other subjects. Before turning to journalism 20 years ago, he was a professor of history at Lake Forest College, Michigan State University and the University of Nebraska. His stories and "think" pieces have carried […]

Africa Editor, The Economist Robert Guest is The Economist’s Africa editor, based in London. Before working at The Economist, Mr. Guest was a roving Africa correspondent. His earlier jobs have included work as The Economist’s healthcare correspondent, as Tokyo correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and as a freelance writer based in South Korea. Mr. Guest […]

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 […]

Senior scientist of the National Scientific Research Agency of France Robert Kandel is a senior scientist of the C.N.R.S. (National Scientific Research Agency of France), in Paris, France. He is also a member of NASA

Chief Economic Correspondent for Newsweek Rich Thomas has been Newsweek’s chief economic correspondent in Washington, D.C. since 1970. During that time, he wrote and contributed to scores of the magazine’s cover stories on economic developments in the United States and around the globe. Mr. Thomas has been the recipient of numerous journalism awards — including […]

British historian Robert Irwin is a British historian, novelist and writer on Arabic literature. He was a lecturer in Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews from 1972 to 1977. He has also been a part-time lecturer in the Arabic departments of Oxford and Cambridge, the history department of the School of Oriental and […]

President of the Republic of Korea President Hyun was elected to office on December 19, 2002 as the Millennium Democratic party candidate in the 16th South Korean presidential election. Previously, he served as Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries under President Kim Dae Jung. He was first elected to the National Assembly in 1988, where […]

Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates Robert D. Hormats is Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates. He served as Under Secretary Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment at the U.S. State Department from 2009 to mid-2013. Prior to that, he was Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs (International) and Managing Director of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. […]

Chairwoman of the International Peace Academy Rita E. Hauser is the president of the Hauser Foundation. She is an international lawyer and was a senior partner for more than twenty years with the New York City law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Rita Hauser also served on the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and […]

President, Council on Foreign Relations, Richard N. Haass is President of the Council on Foreign Relations, a position he has held since July 2003. Until June 2003, Mr. Haass was Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. Department of State, where he was a principal advisor to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell on a broad […]