Bio
Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
Vijay Vaitheeswaran is an award-winning correspondent for The Economist. In his two decades on staff, he has covered development issues, energy and environment, health care, and innovation. He is an expert advisor to the World Economic Forum/Davos and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also teaches at NYU's Stern Business School. Mr. Vaitheeswaran has addressed groups ranging from the U.S. National Governors' Association and the U.N. General Assembly to the TED, AAAS and Aspen Ideas conferences. His most recent special reports for The Economist were on innovation and on technology in health care. His latest book, ZOOM, was named a Book of the Year by the Financial Times. Mr. Vaitheeswaran is also the author of Power to the People, a book on the future of energy.
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