The Globalist

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]