The Forces Behind Famine

Roger Thurow has been a Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent for twenty years and writes about humanitarian and social development issues. He has reported from more than 60 countries, including two dozen in Africa. He has written on a number of subjects ranging from the culture and business of sports to race relations in the US to hunger and food security in Africa.

Thurow received a BA from the School of Journalism & Mass Communication and Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa in 1979. In October 2005, he, along with Scott Kilman, was honored with the A.H. Boerma Award from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. In 1997, Thurow received the bronze prize for print media in the Olympic Media Awards for a series of 13 stories covering the 1996 Summer Olympics. Also in 1997, he was a finalist in the best feature-reporting category of the Deadline Club of New York's awards. He received a second place prize in the feature writing category of the 1999 National Headliner Awards for his series of 1998, page-one stories dealing with racial issues.