Author of THE GRAY RHINO and Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Gray Rhino & Company. Former: Vice-President of Studies, Chicago Council on Global Affairs; President, World Policy Institute; Latin America Bureau Chief, International Financing Review. Member: Council on Foreign Relations, Authors Guild and PEN. Mentor-Editor, The OpEd Project; Sisters of the Planet Ambassador, Oxfam. Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum (2009). Guggenheim Fellow. Author of: Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right; Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle for Hispaniola; The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore (2016). Frequent speaker and media commentator on matters of the global economy, risk management, leadership, and immigration.