Nathan Gardels
Nathan Gardels has been editor of New Perspectives Quarterly since it began publishing in 1985. He has served as editor of Global Viewpoint, Global Economic Viewpoint and Nobel Laureates Plus since 1989. These services have a worldwide readership of 35 million in 15 languages.
Gardels has written for the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Harper's, U.S. News & World Report and New York Review of Books. He has also written for foreign publications, including Corriere della Sera, El Pais, Le Figaro, Yomiuri Shimbun, O'Estado de Sao Paulo, the Guardian, Die Welt and many others. His books include, "At Century's End: Great Minds Reflect on Our Times" and "The Changing Global Order."
Since 1986, Gardels has been a Media Fellow of the World Economic Forum (Davos). He has lectured at the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Rabat, Morocco, and at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. Gardels was a founding member at the New Delhi meeting of Intellectuels du Monde and a visiting researcher at the USA-Canada Institute in Moscow before the end of the Cold War. He has been a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, as well as the Pacific Council, for many years.
From 1983 to 1985, Gardels was executive director of the Institute for National Strategy. Prior to this, he spent four years as key adviser to the governor of California on economic affairs, with an emphasis on public investment, trade issues, the Pacific Basin and Mexico.
Gardels holds degrees in theory and comparative politics and in architecture and urban planning from UCLA and is a senior fellow at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. He was also a consultant on the film "The 11th Hour," produced and directed by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Nathan Gardels Samples
Balkan lessons for a fragmenting Syria
PRISTINA, Kosovo -- Syria is not on the path to peace through the present form of the six-point plan of Kofi Annan, supported by the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.
G-20 must support inclusive green growth globally
Members of the Nicolas Berggruen Institute's 21st Century Council met on May 6 in Mexico City with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, chair of this year's G-20 Summit, to discuss the upcoming issues for the G-20 agenda.
Austerity is strangling Europe
BERLIN -- The emergence of a united Europe is a process that has been going on for decades, characterized by progress but also by setbacks.
No Mysteries in Islamist Politics
Islamist politics in the Middle East cracked wide open with the Arab Awakening: Islamists have emerged on top in Tunisia, Libya, Iraq and Egypt.
The myth of the princelings
BEIJING -- The Bo Xilai saga of power, wealth, corruption and murder has brought the issue of China's princelings to the front and center of the international discourse on contemporary China.
Who will rule the world?
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
Tutu: Religious Strife due to Faithful, Not to Faith
Amina Chaudary of Islamica Magazine recently sat down with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel peace laureate, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The World Has No Center
SUBHED: An Interview with 2008 Nobel Laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008. Skafidas: In your Nobel lecture, you asserted that the writer's world is a passive one.
THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE A DEPRESSION, SAYS NOBEL PANEL
SUBHED: THE FREE-MARKET ECONOMY IS FUNDAMENTALLY HEALTHY. Last week at the Milken Global Conference, three Noble Laureates in Economics sat down to discuss the global recession.
BORLAUG: POPULATION GROWTH REQUIRES SECOND GREEN REVOLUTION
Norman Borlaug is known as the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply.
WHERE ARE AFRICA'S OBAMAS?
Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is the founder of the Green Belt Movement and a former member of Kenya's parliament.
PAUL SAMUELSON: DON'T EXPECT RECOVERY BEFORE 2012 -- WITH 8 PERCENT INFLATION
Paul Samuelson, 93, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1970 and is professor emeritus at MIT. Nathan Gardels: You have outlived Milton Friedman, who died in 2006. Paul Samuelson: You are right. I became a centrist early on.
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