Roger Thurow

Fellow, Global Water
Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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Roger Thurow joined the Chicago Council on Global Affairs as 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. 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. In 2009, they were awarded Action Against Hunger’s Humanitarian Award. Thurow is an expert on agricultural development and speaks often on high-visibility platforms related to nutrition, hunger, and agriculture in the United States, Europe, and Africa. In 2013, he spoke of the power smallholder farmers in Africa at the TedxChange Seattle event, hosted by Melinda Gates. Thurow graduated from the University of Iowa.