Roger Thurow
American writer
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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]
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.