The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will to host a Directors’ Lunch with Vijay Vaitheeswaran on Monday, December 10th in the Belfer Center Library (L369)
Vijay Vaitheeswaran is an award-winning correspondent for the Economist. He joined the staff as the London-based Latin America correspondent in 1992. He opened its first regional office in Mexico City, and served as its bureau chief until 1997. As the magazine’s Global Environment & Energy correspondent, he covered the politics, economics, business, and technology involved in those topics from 1998 to 2006. His portfolio now encompasses global health, pharmaceuticals, and innovation.
Vaitheeswaran's new book, Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future, was co-authored with Economist colleague Iain Carson. It has received critical acclaim, and is a finalist for the Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. Vaitheeswaran is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and teaches at NYU’s Stern School of Business. He is a regular commentator on Marketplace radio, in the Wall Street Journal, and for other media outlets.
He is also the author of an earlier book on the future of energy, Power to the People (www.vijaytothepeople.com). Harvard’s John Holdren, reviewing the book in Scientific American, called it “by far the most helpful, entertaining, up-to-date and accessible treatment of the energy-economy-environment problematique available.”
Vijay’s writings have received various prizes in America and abroad. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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