About the Author

VIJAY V. VAITHEESWARAN is an award-winning correspondent for The Economist. He joined the editorial staff in 1992 as its London-based Latin America correspondent, and opened the magazine’s first regional bureau in Mexico City in 1994. From 1998 to 2006, he covered the politics, economics, business, and technology of energy and the environment. From 2007 to 2011 his portfolio encompassed innovation, global health, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. He is currently the magazine’s China Business & Finance editor.

He is a life member at the Council on Foreign Relations, and an advisor on sustainability issues to the World Economic Forum. He teaches at NYU’s Stern School of Business, and his commentaries have appeared in such outlets as NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. On the topic of innovation, he has addressed groups ranging from the US National Governors’ Association and the UN General Assembly to the TED, AAAS, and Aspen Ideas conferences. He also serves as chairman of the Economist’s path-breaking series of conferences and multimedia debates on innovation, the Ideas Economy (www.ideas.economist.com).

His last book, Zoom, co-authored with Iain Carson, was named a Book of the Year by The Financial Times. His first book, Power to the People, was reviewed by Scientific American as “by far the most helpful, entertaining, up-to-date, and accessible treatment of the energy-economy-environment problematique available.” Vijay is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was named a Harry S. Truman Scholar by the U.S. Congress. He was born in Madras, India, and grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut.

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