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Thomas Friedman, a
New York times journalist and a three-time winner of the Pulitzer
Prize, visited India
to learn more about the impact of outsourcing
- He became the paper's foreign-affairs columnist in 1995.
- Previously, he served as chief economic correspondent in the
Washington bureau and before that he was the chief White House
correspondent.
- In 2005, Mr. Friedman was elected as a member of the Pulitzer
Prize Board.
- Mr. Friedman joined The Times in 1981 and was appointed Beirut
bureau chief in 1982.
- In 1984 Mr. Friedman was transferred from Beirut to Jerusalem,
where he served as Israel bureau chief until 1988
- . Mr. Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international
reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international
reporting (from Israel).
- Mr. Friedman's latest book, "The World is Flat: A Brief
History of the 21st Century," was released in April 2005
and won the inaugural Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book
of the Year award.
- In 2004, he was awarded the Overseas Press Club Award for lifetime
achievement and the honorary title, Order of the British Empire
(OBE), by Queen Elizabeth II.
- His book, "From Beirut to Jerusalem" (1989), won the
National Book Award for non-fiction in 1989 and "The Lexus
and the Olive Tree" (2000) won the 2000 Overseas Press Club
award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy and has been
published in 27 languages. Mr. Friedman also wrote "Longitudes
and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism" (2002)
and the text accompanying Micha Bar-Am's book, "Israel: A
Photobiography."
- Born in Minneapolis on July 20, 1953, Mr. Friedman received
a B.A. degree in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University
in 1975. In 1978 he received a Master of Philosophy degree in
Modern Middle East studies from Oxford. Mr. Friedman is married
and has two daughters.
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