Roger Thurow

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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]

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Early life and education

Thurow grew up in Crystal Lake, Illinois and graduated from the University of Iowa in 1979.

Career

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.

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References

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  1. ↑ "Roger Thurow". WorldCat
  2. ↑ "University presidents from around the world create action agenda to solve hunger ". OANow.com
  3. ↑ Dennis Pirages; Theresa Manley DeGeest (2004). Ecological Security: An Evolutionary Perspective on Globalization. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 267–. ISBN   978-0-8476-9501-0.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "UI officials recognize pair for contributions to public health". The Daily Iowan. BY GRACE PATERAS | NOVEMBER 19, 2014
  6. ↑ David Fick (1 April 2007). Africa: Continent of Economic Opportunity. Real African Publishers. pp. 500–. ISBN   978-1-919855-47-9.
  7. ↑ Patricia Beattie Jung; L. Shannon Jung (1 September 2012). Moral Issues and Christian Responses. Fortress Press. pp. 599–. ISBN   978-0-8006-9896-6.
  8. ↑ "The Pulitzer Prizes | International Reporting".
  9. ↑ Jennifer Clapp (2012). Food. Polity. pp. 203–. ISBN   978-0-7456-4936-8.
  10. ↑ "Action Against Hunger to Honor Humanitarians".
  11. ↑ "Journalist and Activist Roger Thurow leads students from Uganda and Hackney in a session on world hunger | Speakers for Schools".
  12. ↑ "Roger Thurow selected as Ruth Winter Lecturer".
  13. ↑ Edmund W. Kitch; Harvey S. Perlman (20 August 1998). Intellectual property and unfair competition. Foundation Press. p. 303.
  14. ↑ "Roger Thurow." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Biography in Context. Web. 7 Jan. 2014. Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000304314
  15. ↑ University Web Communications. "Roger Thurow “The Last Hunger Season”". Vanderbilt University.
  16. ↑ "Cargill: News Center - Author Roger Thurow discusses potential of smallholders at Cargill".


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