Raghbir Singh Bhola (21 August 1927 – 22 January 2019) was an Indian Airforce Officer and a former India hockey player. He represented India in the 1956 Melbourne and 1960 Rome Olympics, winning a gold and silver medal respectively for the country. He was born in Multan, Pakistan.
Bhola died on 22 January 2019 in New Delhi from complications of multiple organ failure, aged 91.
Rosa González Román
Rosa González Román (23 July 1942 – 21 January 2019) was a Chilean journalist and politician. She was a Deputy from 11 March 1998 to 11 March 2006. She was born in Buin.
González Román died in Santiago de Chile on 21 January 2019 from cervical cancer, aged 76.
Project Syndicate
Project Syndicate is an international media organization that publishes and shares commentary and analysis on important global topics. All opinion pieces are published on the "Project Syndicate" website. Then, they are also distributed to many partner publications to be published again. As of 2016, its network included 459 media outlets in 155 countries.
Ezra Klein called "Project Syndicate" "the world's smartest op-ed page." It publishes and shares commentaries on a many topics, including: economic policy and strategies for growth worldwide, human rights, Islam, and the environment. It also offers monthly series about Africa, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, as well as to China and Russia. RealClearWorld called "Project Syndicate" one of the top five world news sites for 2012.
"Project Syndicate" is a non-profit organization. Newspapers in developed countries support the organization with money. They are about 60% of The members. So, newspapers with less money or resources can publish their articles for free or cheaply. "Project Syndicate" has also received money from the Open Society Foundation, The Politiken Foundation in Denmark, "Die Zeit", ZEIT-Stiftung, and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
"Project Syndicate" translates its columns from English into 13 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
"Project Syndicate" has more than 60 authors who often send columns. Sometimes Project Syndicate publishes opinions by well-known public people such as Shinzo Abe, Francis Fukuyama, Bill and Melinda Gates, Christine Lagarde, Juan Manuel Santos, George Soros, and many others.
Monthly series authors include:
Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein (born May 9, 1984) is an American journalist, blogger, and political commentator who works as editor-at-large of "Vox". He was a blogger and columnist for "The Washington Post" and an associate editor of "The American Prospect". He has contributed to Bloomberg News and MSNBC.
At "The Washington Post", he managed a branded blog called "Wonkblog." The blog was mostly about health care and budget policy. He wrote a primer on policy called "Wonkbook", which was delivered by e-mail and on his blog each morning.
In January 2014, Klein left "The Washington Post". He works for Vox Media as editor-at-large for their news website, "Vox". He co-founded the website along with Melissa Bell and Matthew Yglesias.
Klein was born and raised in Irvine, California. Klein is a middle child, in a Jewish family. His father, Abel Klein, is a mathematics professor at University of California, Irvine. Abel Klein is from Brazil. His mother is an artist. Klein went to school at University High School. He went to the University of California, Santa Cruz, but transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles. He graduated from UCLA in 2005 with a B.A. in political science.
In 2003, Klein and Markos Moulitsas were two of the earliest bloggers to report from a political convention, that of the California State Democratic Party.
Klein worked on Howard Dean's primary campaign in Vermont in 2003, and interned for the "Washington Monthly" in Washington, D.C. in 2004.
On December 10, 2007, Klein moved his blog full-time to the "American Prospect".
Steve Pearlstein, "The Washington Post""'s" veteran business columnist, read and liked Klein's blogging. Pearlstein sent some of Klein's writing to managing editor Raju Narisetti. Narisetti hired Klein to be the Post’s first blogger on politics and economics. On May 18, 2009, he began writing at the newspaper.
In May 2011 when Bloomberg View started, Klein became a columnist there at he same time as at "The Washington Post" and MSNBC.
Klein wrote for and edited Wonkblog at "The Washington Post". He often talks about politics on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," "Hardball with Chris Matthews," and "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell." He contributed to "Countdown with Keith Olbermann".
In October 2015, Klein started a podcast called "The Weeds" with Sarah Kliff and Matt Yglesias. This Vox podcast is detailed discussions about public policy. Klein also hosts the podcast called ""The Ezra Klein Show"". Klein is an executive producer of "Vox's" Netflix series "Explained".
Klein is married to Annie Lowrey. She reports on economic policy at "The Atlantic" magazine.
Gita Gopinath
Gita Gopinath (born 8 December 1971) is an Indian-American economist. She is the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Economics at Harvard University. She is also a co-director of the International Finance and Macroeconomics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has worked as the Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala. She is a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and a member of the economic advisory panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Gopinath is a co-editor at the American Economic Review, co-editor of the current Handbook of International Economics and was managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies. Her research focuses on International Finance and Macroeconomics.
Gopinath was born in Kolkata, India. She is the younger of two daughters of TV Gopinath and VC Vijayalakshmi. They are both from Kannur, Kerala.
She earned a B.A. degree from Lady Shri Ram College for Women of the University of Delhi in 1992 and an M.A. degree in economics from Delhi School of Economics, also of the University of Delhi, in 1994. She completed an M.A. degree at the University of Washington in 1996. In 2001, she got a Ph.D. degree at Princeton University. She won Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Research Award while doing her doctoral research at Princeton.
Gopinath's husband Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal is Executive Director at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They have a son named Rohil.
Laura Tyson
Laura D'Andrea Tyson (born June 28, 1947) is an American economist. She was Chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. She also worked as Director of the National Economic Council. She is a professor at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley.
Tyson was born Laura D'Andrea in New Jersey. Tyson graduated "summa cum laude" with a B.A. in Economics from Smith College in 1969. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974.
Tyson joined the faculty of the economics department at Princeton University in 1974. In 1977 when she became a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She was appointed a professor of business administration in 1990.
In addition to her professorship at UC Berkeley, Tyson is also a member of the Board of Trustees at UC Berkeley's Blum Center for Developing Economies. The Center is focused on finding solutions to address the crisis of extreme poverty and disease in the developing world.
Since 2012, Tyson has written monthly columns for international media organization Project Syndicate.
In November 2013, Tyson founded the Institute for Business and Social Impact at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.
Ernest Angley