G. Pascal Zachary
G. Pascal Zachary
is a writer, teacher, and
researcher. He is a visiting scholar at the School of Information at UC
Berkeley and the Institute for Applied Economics at
Johns Hopkins University.
Gregg consults on African affairs for non-profit organizations and
often
publishes on African themes.
He also writes and lectures on migration,
identity, and diversity; technological change, business and innovation;
and globalization, international security and political reform. He is
director of Innovation Media Africa, a consultancy with offices in
Berkeley, California and Nairobi, Kenya.
From 1989 to 2001, Gregg was a foreign correspondent and senior
special writer for The Wall Street Journal. He contributed the
“Ping” column on technological change to The New York Times in 2007 and
2008.
He is the author of five books, including
Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer Of the American
Century (1997),
The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge: Picking
Globalism’s Winners and Losers (2000),
The Diversity Advantage: Multicultural Identity in the New World
Economy (2003), and
Married to Africa: A Love Story (2008).
His articles include
Vaccines and Their Promise Are Roaring Back,
The Coming Revolution in Africa,
Digital designers rediscover their hands,
Inside Nairobi, the next Palo Alto?,
Starting to Think Outside the Jar,
The Risk of Innovation: Will Anyone Embrace It?,
The Unsung Heroes Who Move Products Forward,
and
English, Algebra, Phys Ed … and Biotech.
Gregg teaches
reporting and writing at Stanford University.
He was born in
Brooklyn, raised on Long Island and studied philosophy at the University
of Albany. He moved to northern California in 1978, where he joined the
last staff of the Berkeley Barb and then the worker-owned Santa Barbara
News & Review, two legendary dissenting weeklies. He later worked as a
writer and editor for Williamette Week, in Portland, Oregon, and the San
Jose Mercury News.
Over 25 years, he has published
articles in many
newspapers, magazines and journals, including Foreign Policy, In These
Times, Mother Jones, Project Syndicate, The New Republic, Wilson
Quarterly, and Wired.
Watch
Interview with G. Pascal Zachary – “Married to
Africa”.
