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WEBINAR: "Roger Thurow: Universities and Development Impact"

Event Type
Other
Sponsor
Soybean Innovation Lab
Location
WEBINAR
Date
Feb 18, 2020   9:30 - 11:30 am  
Speaker
Roger Thurow
Registration
Register for Webinar Here
Contact
Amy Karagiannakis
E-Mail
akaragia@illinois.edu
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A keynote address from the USAID-funded, Illinois based Soybean Innovation Lab's annual retreat will be available via webinar. Roger Thurow will speak about how universities can make an impact in the development world.

Roger Thurow joined the Chicago Council on Global Affairs as a senior fellow on global food and agriculture in January 2010 after three decades at The Wall Street Journal. For 20 years, he was a foreign correspondent based in Europe and Africa. His coverage of global affairs spanned the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the release of Nelson Mandela, the end of apartheid, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and the humanitarian crises of the first decade of this century–along with 10 Olympic Games.

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. He is also the author of The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change, and his most recent book, The First 1,000 Days: A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children—and the World, was published in May 2016.

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