Guests
Correspondents regularly collaborate with guests who are invited to share their expertise on transnational topics, ranging from science and technology to pop culture and lived experience. Below you'll find an overview of all authors.
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Charles Mann
Journalist, specialized in agriculture
Charles C. Mann is the author, most recently, of “The Wizard and Prophet”. His internationally best-selling books “1491" (2005) and “1493” (2011) have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
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Evgeny Morozov
Author of 'The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom'
Evgeny Morozov is a writer and thinker who deals with the social and political implications of information technology. He is the author of The Net Delusion (2011) and To Save Everything, Click Here (2013).
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Emiliano Paternostro
Voice artist
Emi Paternostro started working with audio at age ten. Mentoring under Front of House mixers for concerts, he learned all the ins and outs of live music and sound reinforcement.
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Abhijit Shylanath
Voice artist
Abhijit Shylanath is a music composer and producer from Bangalore, India. He enjoys understanding how things work: music, computers, cultures, games, people and physics.
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Eleanor Caudill
Voice artist
Eleanor Caudill is a voice over artist and audiobook narrator living in Decatur, Georgia. She grew up listening to her father’s self-created books on tape of American Classics.
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Jumoké Fashola
Voice artist
Jumoké Fashola is an award winning Radio & Television Broadcaster, Jazz singer and actress. She currently presents J to Z on BBC Radio 3 and Sunday Breakfast - Inspirit for BBC Radio London.
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Danny Dorling
Geographer at the University of Oxford
Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He is author of “Inequality and the 1%”, third edition published in autumn 2019.
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Maikel Kuijpers
Archaeologist
Maikel Kuijpers is assistant professor in Archaeology at the University of Leiden. For the Correspondent he researches four fundamental materials of our modern civilisation.
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Zeno Siemens-Brega
Journalist, specialized in sound
Zeno Siemens-Brega studied Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, where he wrote his thesis on sound art. He is currently working for De Correspondent on a series of pieces on sound (and well-being).
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Jay Rosen
Professor of journalism, NYU
Jay Rosen is professor of journalism at New York University. He researches digital innovation and online journalism, and especially the role of readers in journalistic projects.
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Eva Rovers
Historian
Eva Maria Rovers is a cultural historian and writer who has published two biographies. She deals with non-violent ways of resistance and change. In her work she investigates how you can change the world both individually and collectively.
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George O'Connor
Illustrator of the graphic novel Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy
George O'Connor is a New York Times–bestselling author and illustrator of the Olympians series as well as such graphic novels as Journey into Mohawk Country and Ball Peen Hammer.
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Daniel Newman
Author of graphic novel Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy
Daniel G. Newman is a national expert on government accountability and money in politics. He is president and co-founder of MapLight, a nonpartisan nonprofit that promotes transparency and political reform.
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Zaid Jilani
Journalist, consensus and polarisation
Zaid Jilani is the Bridging Differences Writing Fellow at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center. A journalist originally from Atlanta, he has worked as a reporter for The Intercept and as a reporter-blogger for ThinkProgress.
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Jason Hickel
Economic anthropologist
Dr Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has authored a number of books, including The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Penguin Random House UK, 2018).
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Yanis Varoufakis
Economist and politician
Yanis Varoufakis is a Member of Greece's Parliament and leader of MeRA25, Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, the co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement) and author of many books.
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Ingrid Robeyns
Professor of ethics of institutions
Ingrid Robeyns is an economist and philosopher, and professor of Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
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Raksha Kumar
Human rights journalist, with a specific focus on land and forest rights
Raksha Kumar is a human rights journalist, with a specific focus on land and forest rights. Since 2011, she has reported from twelve countries across the world and a hundred districts in India for The New York Times, BBC, Guardian and more.
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Afrose Jahan
Investigative journalist based in Bangladesh
Afrose Jahan is a Bengali investigative journalist. She writes for international media about human rights, gender, migration, human trafficking, ethnic and religious minorities and climate change.
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Benedict Wermter
Journalist
Benedict is a German freelance journalist and researcher. He currently works on research stories about environmental and social problems in Europe and Asia, but he also likes to write stories about special characters.
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Sylke Gruhnwald
Reporter for Swiss magazine Beobachter, chairwoman of Journalismfund.eu
Sylke Gruhnwald is an investigative journalist living in Zurich, Switzerland. In her research Sylke likes to expose inequality in society and various sectors.
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Henk van Houtum
Expert in border studies & research in Netherlands & Finland
Henk van Houtum is Professor of Political Geography and Geopolitics, and head of the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research at Radboud University. He is also part-time Professor of Border Studies at the University of East Finland.
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Sarah Menkedick
Freelance writer
Sarah Menkedick is the author of Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America, out last April from Pantheon. Her first book, Homing Instincts, was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
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Njoki Ngumi
Non-clinical general practitioner and writer
Njoki Ngumi is a Kenyan non-clinical general practitioner, currently a writer, feminist thinker, artist and cultural worker. She is a founding member of the Nairobi-based Nest Collective.
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Alnoor Ladha
Writer and activist
Alnoor Ladha is a writer & activist and co-founder of /The Rules, a global collective of activists and organisers focused on addressing the root causes of inequality and poverty. He is also a board member of the Culture Hack Labs.
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Felipe Viveros
Independent researcher, strategist & consultant from Chile
Felipe Viveros is a British-Chilean writer, independent researcher, artist and strategist. Felipe’s work focuses on the intersection of on-line organizing, digital storytelling, policy and systems change.
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Anne Thériault
Journalist
Anne Thériault is a Toronto-based writer whose bylines at the Broadview Magazine, the London Review of Books, and Longreads among others. You can usually find her on Twitter being enthusiastic about weird history stuff.
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Viola Stefanello
Journalist
Viola Serena Stefanello writes stories, articles and analyses on topics spanning from international affairs to gender issues, from pop culture to politics. She is based in Rome.
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Ketan Joshi
Climate and energy writer
Ketan Joshi is a climate and energy writer based in Norway. His book will be published in September 2020, and formerly worked in Australia's clean energy industry.
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Rebecca Helm
Writer and biologist
Rebecca R. Helm is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina Asheville, where she studies the development, evolution, and ecology of jellies.
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Michael Caley
Journalist
Michael Caley is a writer and researcher in sports analytics focused on football, a feminist scholar of religion, a political organizer in Brooklyn, and a stay-at-home parent. His work has appeared at Time, FiveThirtyEight and the Washington Post.
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Maaza Mengiste
Writer
Maaza Mengiste is the award-winning author of two novels: The Shadow King (2019) and Beneath the Lion's Gaze, published in 2010. Her work can be found in The New Yorker, Granta, the Guardian, the New York Times, and Rolling Stone among other publications.
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Zara Rahman
Researcher in power, technology and justice
Zara Rahman is a Berlin-based researcher and writer whose work sits at the intersection of power, technology and justice. Her recent writing focuses on how technology is shaping our identities and our relationships with others.
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Maya Goodfellow
Writer
Maya Goodfellow is writer and academic. She is the author of Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats and has written for the New York Times, Guardian, the Washington Post and others.
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Jonathan Moens
Journalist
Jonathan is a New York based journalist, with a background in neuroscience and philosophy. He previously worked as a research assistant and investigated the neural basis of conscious and unconscious perception.
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Ann Pettifor
Political economist
Ann Pettifor is a political economist, author and public speaker. She writes and speaks on the global financial & economic system, on money, monetary policy.
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Stephanie Leguichard
Journalist
Stephanie is a writer, editor, activist, and graduate student studying cultural anthropology. She enjoys writing about mental health, capitalism, gender, environmental politics, and activism, among many other topics.
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Joris Luyendijk
Journalist
Joris Luyendijk has been working as a journalist for 20 years. He writes about the Middle East, the financial sector and populist politics. His work has been published in the NRC Handelsblad, Netherlands and The Guardian.
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Nafeez Ahmed
Investigative journalist and systems theorist
Dr Nafeez Ahmed is an investigative journalist and systems theorist. He writes for VICE on what he calls the ‘Crisis of Civilization’. He has written for The Guardian, The Times, Sunday Times, The Independent, and The Atlantic.
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Giacomo Zandonini
Journalist
Giacomo Zandonini is freelance journalist, working at the intersection of migrations, human trafficking, European policies. Rome-based, but mostly travelling through West Africa.
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Ajibola Amzat
Journalist
Ajibola Amzat is a Nigerian investigative journalist, he has years of experience uncovering major corruption scandals in Nigeria.
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Neil Morris
Writer
Neil Morris is a Yorta Yorta man, activist, community organiser and musician (DRMNGNOW). He is driven by strong social justice motivations for all First Nations peoples and is an advocate for Sovereign Rights and Community Empowerment.
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Jacinta Molina
Journalist
Jacinta Molina is a journalist based in Santiago, Chile. She studied globalisation, media and politics in Europe. Jacinta works at CNN Chile as news reporter focusing on politics and social issues.
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Matthew Hirtes
Journalist
Matthew Hirtes covers the Canarian archipelago and beyond for the likes of easyJet Traveller, Telegraph Travel, and Weather2Travel.com.
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Emilie Filou
Journalist
Emilie Filou is a freelance journalist specialising in sustainability and development issues. She has written for The Economist, the Guardian, the Telegraph, Lonely Planet and the BBC.
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Esra'a Al Shafei
Human rights activist
Esra'a Al Shafei is a Bahraini human rights activist and founder of Majal.org, a network of online platforms that amplify under-reported and marginalized voices.
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Rolf Dobelli
Writer
Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss writer and businessman. He studied philosophy and business administration and worked as CEO of various Swiss Air subsidiaries. His books have been translated and published in more than forty countries.
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Joan Westenberg
Journalist
Joan Westenberg (@joanwestenberg) is a writer and journalist, and a proud transgender woman. Joan writes about technology, culture and the media for a range of publications. She lives in Sydney and maintains a firmly monochrome wardrobe.
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Rachael Revesz
Journalist
Rachael Revesz is a writer and editor, focusing on finance, feminism and freelance life. She is host of An Honest Account, a podcast about how money affects our lives.
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Felipe Maia Ferreira
Journalist
Felipe Maia is a journalist and ethnomusicologist whose work is focused on popular culture and digital technology.