Roger Thurow is an American author"Roger Thurow". WorldCat and a journalist."University presidents from around the world create action agenda to solve hunger ". OANow.com 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."UI officials recognize pair for contributions to public health". The Daily Iowan. BY GRACE PATERAS | NOVEMBER 19, 2014
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, and for twenty of those years he was based abroad in Europe and Africa. 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."The Pulitzer Prizes | International Reporting". In 2009 Thurow and Kilman authored the book Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. They received Action Against Hunger's Humanitarian Award for this book in 2009. "Action Against Hunger to Honor Humanitarians". 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,"Journalist and Activist Roger Thurow leads students from Uganda and Hackney in a session on world hunger | Speakers for Schools". "Roger Thurow selected as Ruth Winter Lecturer". and writes for the Huffington Post.
Thurow currently resides in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois with his wife and two children.
References
"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. "Cargill: News Center - Author Roger Thurow discusses potential of smallholders at Cargill".
External links Roger Thurlow's biography at the Chicago Council