Join us for an informal lunch and meet Gregg Zachary, visiting lecturer at Stanford and journalist.

Please let Vi know if you are unable to attend.

Biography:

G. Pascal Zachary has been a journalist and writer for 25 years, including 13 years as a senior writer for The Wall Street Journal (1989 to 2001). He specializes in writing about international affairs, especially involving Africa and the developing world, immigration, and technology and business. He is currently a journalism fellow with the German Marshall Fund and a senior writer with Business 2.0 (a monthly magazine published by Time Inc.). He contributes to many publications, including most recently The New Republic, The World Policy Journal, Spectrum, The New York Times and The San Francisco Chronicle. While at The Wall Street Journal, Zachary wrote more than 80 page-one articles and was once described by The Boston Globe as "the single most interesting journalist of all the 700-plus highly-talented reporters" on the Journal. Zachary is the author of three books: "Showstopper," about the making of the Windows NT computer program (published in 1994); "Endless Frontier," the biography of Vannevar Bush, organizer of the Manhattan Project and architect of the partnership between science and the military during World War Two (published in 1997); and "The Diversity Advantage: Multicultural Identity in the New World Economy" (published in 2000, revised in 2003).

Zachary was a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan (1988-89), a McCloy Journalism Fellow of the American Council on Germany (1998), and a visiting professor of journalism at the University of California Graduate School of Journalism (2001-2002). He also lectured at the UC journalism graduate school from 1994 to 1997 and at Stanford since 2003. Over the years, he has lectured on science, technology and society, as well as diversity, identity and the intercultural relations, at Warwick University (Britain), the University of Cork (Ireland), the World Culture House (Berlin), the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), Tufts University, the California Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California at Berkeley. He has been awarded research fellowships by Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at Berkeley. In 2003, he was the first Africa director for Journalists for Human Rights, a media training group based in Toronto. In Africa , he also consulted for Amnesty International (Nigeria), the West Africa Network for Peace (Ghana) and a Merck-Gates AIDS treatment initiative (Botswana).

Reviewing his work in 2000, the Atlantic monthly wrote, "Zachary is making a bid to become a serious public intellectual who can combine familiarity with scholarly literature.with first-hand reporting." Born in Brooklyn, he lives in the Bay Area. His personal interests include jazz, basketball, African art and American history. He is married and has three children.