Adam Tanner

This destination expert will only deliver lectures in English. 

Lecturer and writer Adam Tanner is an expert on the impact of Europe and the United States on Asia, Latin America and Africa through colonialism, empire and economic engagement, and the influence of India, China and other Asian nations on Western history.
He has been an associate and fellow at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science since 2012. At the university he has also been an editor at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, and Nieman Fellow.
He spent much of his career living and reporting on both sides of Europe’s East-West divide 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. 
His books What Stays in Vegas and Our Bodies, Our Data investigate the worldwide market in personal data and the privacy implications. He has appeared on the BBC, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and VOA; written for Scientific American, Forbes, Consumer Reports, Fortune, Time and MIT Technology Review; and given vivid multimedia talks on six continents.
He has interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, Al Gore, Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Robert McNamara, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, Shirley Temple Black, Leni Riefenstahl, Johnny Cash, Jimmy Page, and Dave Brubeck.

Languages spoken: English, Italian, German, Russian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Hindi/Urdu, French, Spanish

 

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