Thomas Friedman

Author and journalist Thomas Friedman joined the New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter and later served as the chief diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics correspondents. A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles reporting U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics, and the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. In 2005, The World Is Flat earned the first Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and Mr. Friedman was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report.