Bestselling author of The World is Flat and New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman is renowned for his direct reporting and accessible analysis of complex issues shaping the world. According to Foreign Policy magazine, “Friedman doesn’t just report on events; he helps shape them.” Winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, he has covered the monumental stories from around the globe for The New York Times since 1981. Vanity Fair called him “the country’s best newspaper columnist.”

In his latest bestseller, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, Friedman offers a blueprint for overcoming the stresses and challenges of a world being transformed by technology, globalization, and climate change.

His previous New York Times bestseller, co-written with Michael Mandelbaum, was That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back. According to The Christian Science Monitor, “Anyone who cares about America’s future ought to read this book and hear the authors’ compelling case.”

Ranked #2 on The Wall Street Journal‘s list of “influential business thinkers” and named to the 2011 Thinkers50 and the 2013 list of Foreign Policy‘s Top Global Thinkers, Friedman is considered one of “America’s Best Leaders” by US News & World Report. He is a frequent guest on programs such as Meet the Press and Morning Joe, and his TV documentaries, Searching for the Roots of 9/11; The Other Side of Outsourcing, and Addicted to Oil, have aired on the Discovery Channel. Friedman was featured in Showtime‘s climate change documentary series Years of Living Dangerously, executive produced by James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger.