Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times and author of several books, including The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century and Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
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