Roger Cohen joined The New York Times in 1990, working as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade before becoming acting foreign editor on Sept. 11, 2001, and foreign editor six months later. Since 2004, he has written a column for The Times-owned International Herald Tribune, first for the news pages and then, since 2007, for the Op-Ed page. In 2009 he was named a columnist of The New York Times. Cohen is the author of Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo (Random House, 1998), an account of the wars of Yugoslavia’s destruction, and Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis’ Final Gamble (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005). He has also co-written a biography of General Norman Schwarzkopf, In the Eye of the Storm (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1991) and is completing a family memoir to be published by Alfred A. Knopf in the fall of 2014.
Dr. Javier Corrales is a professor of political science at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. He is the co-author of numerous books on Latin American politics and history, including U.S.-Venezuela Relations Since the 1990s: Coping with Midlevel Security Threats (Routledge, 2013), and Dragon in the Tropics: Hugo Chávez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela (Brookings Institution Press, 2011). He is also the co-editor of The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America: A Reader on GLBT Rights (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010). Corrales’ research has been published in many academic journals, and he serves on the editorial board of Latin American Politics and Society and Americas Quarterly. Corrales has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and was selected as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He has also been a consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations, the Center for Global Development, Freedom House and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Daniel Howe is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford University and Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His book, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 – 1848, published by Oxford University Press, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2008, as well as the annual American History Prize of the New-York Historical Society, and the annual Prize of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Howe earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a master’s degree from Oxford University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at Yale from 1966 to 1973, and at UCLA from 1973 to 1992, chairing the History Department there between 1983 and 1987. In 1989–90, Howe was Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Oxford, and in 1992 he returned to Oxford as Rhodes Professor of American History for the next ten years. He helped found the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford, and continues to do research and writing, both at UCLA and the Huntington Library. Howe is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Historical Society and the Society of American Historians. He has written for The New York Review of Books, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy and Smithsonian Magazine.
Lawrence Ingrassia was named an assistant managing editor of The New York Times in January 2013. For the previous nine years, he was business and financial editor for the paper and has directed coverage that was chosen as a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize nine times and won five Pulitzers. Ingrassia was the winner of the 2009 Minard Editor Award, honoring excellence in business and economic journalism. Before joining The Times, Ingrassia had a 25-year career at the Wall Street Journal, where he held a variety of positions, including assistant managing editor for the Journal from December 2003 until he moved to The Times, as well as bureau chief in London and bureau chief in Boston. Before joining the Journal, Ingrassia worked as a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times. He graduated with honors and a B.A. in journalism from the University of Illinois in 1974..
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