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Roger Thurow - The Perseus Books Group. Washington, DC, US

Roger Thurow

Senior Fellow | The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Washington, DC, UNITED STATES

Pulitzer prize finalist with a wealth of experience writing about global food issues, hunger, poverty and international affairs

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Roger Thurow is a Senior Fellow for Global Agriculture and Food Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He was for thirty years a reporter at The Wall Street Journal. He is, with Scott Kilman, the author of Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Still Starve in an Age of Plenty, which won the Harry Chapin Why Hunger book award and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award. Thurow is a 2009 recipient of the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award. His most recent book is The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change. He has spoken to 200 audiences over the past several years; his recent events are “transmedia” presentations combining speaking with short video clips and slide shows. A graduate of the University of Iowa and a long-time resident of Chicago, Thurow now lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Anne, and their two children, Brian and Aishling.

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Areas of Expertise (5)

Africa

Food Policy

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Poverty

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Accomplishments (4)

Pulitzer Prize Finalist in International Writing (professional)

2003-01-01

Roger Thurow and Journal colleague Scott Kilman wrote a series of stories on famine in Africa.

Harry Chapin Book Award Recipient (professional)

2010-06-18

Awarded for Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman.

Finalist for The Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism (professional)

2010-01-01

The Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism is an annual award presented by the New York Public Library.

Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize (professional)

2010-01-01

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is "the first and only U.S. literary award recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace."

Education (1)

University of Iowa: B.A., Journalism & Mass Communication 1979

Affiliations (6)

  • Huffington Post
  • Wall Street Journal
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  • The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Ending Hunger