The Globalist

Journalist Ronan Thomas is a London-based journalist. Since 2004, he has reported on the geopolitics of East Asia, Europe and the Middle East for BBC News Online, Asia Times Online, Wall Street Journal, Spiegel Online, Christian Science Monitor, Businessweek, Korea Times and Singapore’s Straits Times. During the 1990s, he worked for Accenture’s strategy practice in […]

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 […]

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 […]

Director of the Emerging Economies Programme, the Foreign Policy Centre Seema Desai is director of the Emerging Economies Programme at the Foreign Policy Centre, a London-based think tank launched under the patronage of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The programme examines the consequences of the economic and political ascent of China and India in the […]

Business author and journalist Stuart Crainer is a business author and journalist based in the United Kingdom. His books include, “Key Management Ideas,” “The Management Century,” “The Ultimate Business Library,” and “The Tom Peters Phenomenon.” Mr. Crainer writes for The Times of London and the American Management Association’s MWorld. He is also a frequent contributor […]

Freelance writer Suzanne Charlé is a freelance writer and editor based in New York, who has focused much of her professional effort towards work on Asia. In addition to the Ford Foundation Report, her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation and the International Herald Tribune. Currently, she is working on a […]

U.S. Congressman Sherrod Brown is currently running for the U.S. Senate as a representative of Ohio. Since being elected to represent Ohio’s 13th Congressional District in 1992, Sherrod Brown has positioned himself as one of Congress’ most respected voices on domestic and international health care and trade policy. He is the author of “Congress from […]

Senior Economist, Deutsche Bank Stefan Bielmeier joined Deutsche Bank in 1996 and is currently senior economist at Deutsche Bank. Previously, he analyzed the behavior of the financial markets and developed econometric forecast models on the basis of these analyses. Within the bank’s Global Markets division he is the economist for Germany and forecasts all key […]

Author Robert Wright is the author of “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny,” which uses a game theoretic approach to understand the purposes of human evolution. His previous book, “The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life” (Vintage Books) was named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the 12 best books […]

Editorial Page Editor, Providence Journal Robert Whitcomb is the co-author of “Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound.” He is also a vice president and the editorial-page editor of The Providence Journal. Before coming to the Providence Journal, Mr. Whitcomb was the financial editor of the […]