Executives Club - Roger Thurow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Speaker:  Roger Thurow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs & Author

Topic:  The Crusade Against Hunger

When you look into the eyes of a starving person, you get a disease of the soul. This is how prize-winning journalist Roger Thurow describes the moment when he was transformed from a general news reporter into a crusader against hunger.

For 30 years, Thurow was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, 20 of them as a foreign correspondent.  He has reported from more than 60 countries, including two dozen in Africa.  He was co-author, along with Scott Kilman, of ENOUGH: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. Their coverage of famine in Africa was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 2004.   In 2005, they were honored by the United Nations for their reporting on humanitarian and development issues, and in 2009 they received Action Against Hunger’s Humanitarian Award. 

Since 2010, Roger has been a senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. 

Thurow’s  new book, The Last Hunger Season, will be released publicly next week. In The Last Hunger Season, he chronicles a year in the life of four African farmers.  The daily dramas of the farmers’ lives unfold against the backdrop of a looming global challenge: to feed a growing population, world food production must nearly double by 2050. If these farmers succeed, so might we all.

Please join Thurow at Executives Club on Friday, June 1 for an intriguing discussion about finding long-term sustainable solutions to end global hunger.

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