Roger Thurow

Senior fellow

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Roger Thurow joined The Chicago Council on Global Affairs as senior fellow for global agricultural development in January 2010 after three decades at The Wall Street Journal.  For 20 years, he served as a Journal foreign correspondent, based in Europe and Africa.

In 2003, he and Journal colleague Scott Kilman wrote a series of stories on famine in Africa that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting.  Their reporting on humanitarian and development issues was also honored by the United Nations.  Thurow and Kilman are authors of the book, ENOUGH: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty.  In 2009, they were awarded Action Against Hunger’s Humanitarian Award.  They also received the 2009 Harry Chapin Why Hunger book award.

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