Roger Thurow is an American author[1] and a journalist.[2] He is a former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. As of 2010, Thurow is a senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He is noted for his writing about the politics of world hunger.[3][4][5]
Early life and education edit
Thurow grew up in Crystal Lake, Illinois and graduated from the University of Iowa in 1979.
Career edit
For thirty years Thurow worked as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal,[6] and for twenty of those years he was based abroad in Europe and Africa.[7] After writing a series on famine in Africa, Thurow and Scott Kilman, fellow Wall Street Journal colleague, were finalists for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting.[8] In 2009 Thurow and Kilman authored the book Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty.[9] They received Action Against Hunger's Humanitarian Award for this book in 2009. [10] Thurow's second book, The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change, was published in the spring of 2012.
Thurow also lectures on various topics about the world economy,[11][12] and writes for the Huffington Post.
Thurow currently resides in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois with his wife and two children.
References edit
- ^ "Roger Thurow". WorldCat
- ^ "University presidents from around the world create action agenda to solve hunger ". OANow.com
- ^ Dennis Pirages; Theresa Manley DeGeest (2004). Ecological Security: An Evolutionary Perspective on Globalization. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 267–. ISBN 978-0-8476-9501-0.
- ^ Barbara A. Arrighi; David J. Maume (2007). Child Poverty in America Today: Health and medical care. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 17–. ISBN 978-0-275-98928-6.
- ^ "UI officials recognize pair for contributions to public health". The Daily Iowan. BY GRACE PATERAS | NOVEMBER 19, 2014
- ^ David Fick (1 April 2007). Africa: Continent of Economic Opportunity. Real African Publishers. pp. 500–. ISBN 978-1-919855-47-9.
- ^ Patricia Beattie Jung; L. Shannon Jung (1 September 2012). Moral Issues and Christian Responses. Fortress Press. pp. 599–. ISBN 978-0-8006-9896-6.
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes | International Reporting".
- ^ Jennifer Clapp (2012). Food. Polity. pp. 203–. ISBN 978-0-7456-4936-8.
- ^ "Action Against Hunger to Honor Humanitarians".
- ^ "Journalist and Activist Roger Thurow leads students from Uganda and Hackney in a session on world hunger | Speakers for Schools".
- ^ "Roger Thurow selected as Ruth Winter Lecturer".
- ^ Edmund W. Kitch; Harvey S. Perlman (20 August 1998). Intellectual property and unfair competition. Foundation Press. p. 303.
- ^ "Roger Thurow." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Biography in Context. Web. 7 Jan. 2014. Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000304314
- ^ University Web Communications. "Roger Thurow “The Last Hunger Season”". Vanderbilt University.
- ^ "Cargill: News Center - Author Roger Thurow discusses potential of smallholders at Cargill".