James Fallows
Professor James Fallows is Chair in US Media at the US Studies Centre and National Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly magazine. One of the world's leading journalists, Fallows is author of ten books and hundreds of articles on a wide variety of subjects including US national security policy, the US Congress, Iraq, Japan, the future of print media, and the future of airline travel.
Professor Fallows is a winner of the American Book Award for National Defense, a critical assessment of American military power at the height of the Cold War, and the National Magazine Award for "The Fifty First State?" one of the first analyses of the likely consequences of the US invasion of Iraq. His 2009 book is Postcards from Tomorrow Square, is a series of essays on contemporary China based on his experiences living in Beijing and Shanghai in recent years; he also won a NY Emmy for his role as host and writer of a documentary series about business in China. His latest book, China Airborne, about the high-tech ambitions and limitations of a rising China, will be published in May, 2012.
Earlier in his career Professor Fallows served as Editor of US News and World Report and was Chief Speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter. He has been a visiting professor and guest lecturer at many of the world's leading universities including Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale in the US, and Fudan and Tsinghua in China.
Professor Fallows is a graduate of Harvard University, where he was Editor of its daily newspaper, The Crimson, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He holds honorary doctorates from a dozen universities, including Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois and the University of Maryland.
