Richard Longworth is senior fellow at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and author of Caught in the Middle: America’s Heartland in the Age of Globalism, on the impact of globalization on the American Midwest. Longworth joined the Council in 2003 as executive director of Global Chicago after a career in journalism. For 20 years, he was a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and United Press International, and was the Tribune’s chief European correspondent. He has reported from 75 countries on five continents. Longworth also is the author of Global Squeeze and co-author of Global Chicago. He is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at DePaul University, an adjunct professor of international relations at Northwestern University and a mentor at the Harris School at the University of Chicago. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, has won the Overseas Press Club award twice, and was a finalist two times for the Pulitzer Prize. In addition, he has won every major national award for economic reporting. Longworth 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.
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Related Materials:
- The Midwesterner, a blog of the Global Midwest Initiative, Richard C. Longworth author
- “A Midwestern Marshall Plan? Well, Sort Of,” Richard C. Longworth, Global Midwest Policy Brief, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs,
- "Can the Midwest Regain its Economic Clout?," Richard C. Longworth, Chicago Tribune
- "When Life Is Elsewhere," Jonathan Eig, Wall Street Journal
- "American Midwest in the Age of Globalization," Richard C. Longworth, Worldview, Chicago Public Radio
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