Writer and lecturer Adam Tanner is an editor and researcher at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School, and an associate at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

He is an expert on the impact of the West on the rest of the world through colonialism, empire and economic engagement, as well as on the influence in turn of Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Pacific on European and U.S. history.

He has spent much of his career living and reporting on both sides of Europe’s East-West divide, including in Moscow, Berlin, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He has served as Reuters news agency bureau chief for the Balkans and San Francisco, and correspondent in Berlin, Moscow and Washington D.C. 

He is the author of "What Stays in Vegas" and "Our Bodies, Our Data"; has appeared on the BBC, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and VOA; written for Scientific American, Forbes, Fortune, Time and MIT Technology Review; and given vivid multimedia talks in six continents.

Language spoken: English

Photo credit: Adam Luxor