Iowa in the Global Community
Richard C. Longworth
Senior Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Howe Hall
Time: TBA
Richard Longworth is a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global
Affairs and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at DePaul University. He is the
author of the book, Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of
Globalism, published in 2008 by Bloomsbury.
Longworth joined the Council in 2003 as executive director of its Global
Chicago Center after a career in journalism, most recently as senior
correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. For 20 years, Longworth was a foreign
correspondent for the Tribune and United Press International and was the
Tribune's Chief European Correspondent. He has reported from 75 countries on
five continents.
Longworth is the author of Global Squeeze, one of the first books on
globalization, and of a MacArthur Foundation report, "Global Chicago," which
led to the foundation of the Global Chicago Center. He is co-author of a
book, also called Global Chicago, published by the University of Illinois
Press. His new book, Caught in the Middle, describes the impact of
globalization on the Midwest. He has been an adjunct professor in
international relations at Northwestern University and a regular lecturer at
Columbia University and is a mentor at the Harris School at the University
of Chicago.
Longworth, an Iowa native, graduated from Northwestern and won NU's Alumni
Merit Award in 2000. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, won the Overseas
Press Club award twice, for series on globalization and the UN, and was
twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in 1980 and 2003. He also has won
every major national award for economic reporting, plus the Lowell Thomas
award for a story on a camel trek through the Sahara Desert. He is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, has been a speaker at the
Davos conferences and for five years was a mentor to StreetWise, Chicago's
newspaper for the homeless.
Richard Longworth