Nicholas Kristof is a columnist at The New York Times and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He grew up on a farm in Oregon, graduated from Harvard, earned a First in law at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and then studied Arabic in Cairo. He was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo, and then served as editor of The Sunday New York Times. After 9/11, he became an op-ed columnist. Aside from his Pulitzers, for coverage of China’s Tiananmen democracy movement and for the Darfur genocide, he has won an Emmy and several global humanitarian prizes. He has written six best-selling books, including the No. 1 best-seller “Half the Sky” and the memoir “Chasing Hope,” and has made several television documentaries. Kristof, who has lived on four continents and traveled to more than 160 countries, leads an annual fundraising appeal for selected nonprofits that now raises more than $50 million a year.