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16.04.2014
World-renowned journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman to give Public Lecture “A Brief Theory of Everything” at the invitation of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation
On Wednesday, April 23, internationally renowned reporter and columnist of The New York Times, the author of six bestselling books and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes Thomas L. Friedman will give lecture “A Brief Theory of Everything” as part of the Public Lectures project of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
In his lecture ‘Brief Theory about Everything’ he will present analysis of the big global trends of today, how they will affect business, labor markets, governance and education, and what that means worldwide and for Ukraine.
After the lecture Thomas L. Friedman will answer questions of the audience traditionally composed of students and young scholars of the leading Ukrainian universities, winners of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation scholarship programs, businessmen, diplomats and journalists.
Video record of the lecture will be available soon after the event on the Victor Pinchuk Foundation website, Photo and Video section.
As part of its Public Lectures project, since 2006 the Victor Pinchuk Foundation regularly invites leading politicians, thinkers and public figures to Ukraine to discuss challenges facing the world and Ukraine. By organizing such a dialogue between world leaders, experts and Ukrainian students, the Foundation wishes to contribute to fostering a new generation of responsible leaders.
In the previous years, lectures were given, among others, by Dr. Francis Fukuyama, Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; James Wolfensohn, 9th President of the World Bank Group; Colin Powell, 65th US Secretary of State; Dr. Javier Solana, High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union (1999-2009) and Secretary General of NATO (1995-1999); Joschka Fischer, Vice Chancellor of Germany (1998-2005); Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States; Shimon Peres, President of Israel; Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1997-2007); Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (1998-2005); Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation; Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, Professor of Physics at The City College of New York.
Thomas L. Friedman
Foreign Affairs Columnist
The New York Times
Thomas Friedman, a world-renowned author and journalist, has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The New York Times. His foreign affairs column, which appears twice a week, reports on US domestic politics and foreign policy, Middle East conflicts, international economics, environment, biodiversity and energy.
Friedman is the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem, which won both the National Book and the Overseas Press Club Awards in 1989. The Lexus and the Olive Tree, winner of the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best non-fiction book on foreign policy. Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, issued in 2002, consists of columns Friedman published about September 11. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, issued in April 2005 and updated in 2006 and 2007, received the inaugural Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. In 2008 he brought out Hot, Flat, and Crowded, which was published in a revised edition a year later. His sixth and most recent book, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, co-written with Michael Mandelbaum, was released in 2011.
For his coverage of the Middle East, Mr. Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel). He was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary for “his clarity of vision…in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat.” In 2004, he was awarded the Overseas Press Club Award for lifetime achievement and the honorary title, Order of the British Empire (OBE), by Queen Elizabeth II.
Mr. Friedman lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Ann. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Brandeis University and the Board of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Official web-site: thomaslfriedman.com
