About the Speaker
Peter
Godwin
Zimbabwean journalist, filmmaker, and former human rights lawyer
Peter Godwin is a Zimbabwean author, journalist, filmmaker, and former human rights lawyer. He has reported from over 60 countries and is the author of “The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe.” His film “The Industry of Death,” an exploration of the sex trade in Thailand, won the gold medal for investigative film at the New York Film Festival. Godwin has taught writing at the New School, Princeton University, and Columbia University, and served as a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.