Roger Thurow Explained

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.

References

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External links

Roger Thurlow's biography at the Chicago Council

Notes and References

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http://www.oanow.com/news/auburnuniversity/article_9c654e36-160e-11e5-aaf9-0b00d3832364.html "University presidents from around the world create action agenda to solve hunger "
Book: Dennis Pirages. Dennis C. Pirages. Theresa Manley DeGeest. Ecological Security: An Evolutionary Perspective on Globalization. 2004. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-0-8476-9501-0. 267–.
Book: Barbara A. Arrighi. David J. Maume. Child Poverty in America Today: Health and medical care. 2007. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-275-98928-6. 17–.
http://www.dailyiowan.com/2014/11/19/Metro/40119.html "UI officials recognize pair for contributions to public health"
Book: David Fick. Africa: Continent of Economic Opportunity. 1 April 2007. Real African Publishers. 978-1-919855-47-9. 500–.
Book: Patricia Beattie Jung. L. Shannon Jung. Moral Issues and Christian Responses. 1 September 2012. Fortress Press. 978-0-8006-9896-6. 599–.
http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/International-Reporting "The Pulitzer Prizes | International Reporting"
Book: Jennifer Clapp. Food. 2012. Polity. 978-0-7456-4936-8. 203–.
http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/blog/action-against-hunger-honor-humanitarians "Action Against Hunger to Honor Humanitarians"
http://www.speakers4schools.org/news-media/journalist-and-activist-roger-thurow-leads-students-uganda-and-hackney-session-world "Journalist and Activist Roger Thurow leads students from Uganda and Hackney in a session on world hunger | Speakers for Schools"
http://www.lakeforest.edu/live/news/2958-roger-thurow-selected-as-ruth-winter-lecturer "Roger Thurow selected as Ruth Winter Lecturer"
Book: Edmund W. Kitch. Harvey S. Perlman. Intellectual property and unfair competition. 20 August 1998. Foundation Press. 303.
http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000304314&source=Bookmark&u=22396_largo&jsid=afd4e250ed1c83fedaf99e9d980afa7a "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.
http://www.cargill.com/news/author-roger-thurow-discusses-food-security/index.jsp "Cargill: News Center - Author Roger Thurow discusses potential of smallholders at Cargill"