Business correspondent, Newsweek New York, NY Covered emerging markets, global business, and international security --Feature on Africa’s emerging markets won prestigious journalism prize --Hired and supervised by author and CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria --Interviewed figures such as Olusegun Obasanjo, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, the Dalai Lama, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, World Bank President --Last Western journalist in Tehran during the 2009 post-election uprising --Traveled to 35 countries on assignment; previously worked as a writer for The Economist, The New York Times, and Time Magazine with assignments in Zimbabwe, North Korea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea I'm a Yale-trained professional journalist, most recently a staff writer at Newsweek. I've also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, and Time Magazine, among others. If you want sharp prose delivered with speed, I'm your guy.