Shashi Tharoor(2017)
WRITER, POLITICIAN & DIPLOMAT
Shashi Tharoor is an award-winning author of 16 books of fiction and non-fiction, a politician and former international civil servant. Dr. Tharoor’s books include “The Great Indian Novel”, the classic “India: From Midnight to the Millennium”, “Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century”, and “India Shastra”. His latest book “Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India” was released in 2016. He has won numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Now a second-term member of India’s lower house of Parliament representing Thiruvananthapuram and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, he has served as Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs in the Government of India. During his nearly three-decade long career at the United Nations, he served as a peacekeeper, refugee worker and administrator at the highest levels, serving as Under-Secretary General during Kofi Annan’s leadership.
More Speakers
Akhil Sharma
WRITER
Alberto Ruy Sanchez
WRITER & POET
Amber Cantorna
WRITER & LGBT RIGHTS ACTIVIST
Ami Dayan
DIRECTOR, ACTOR & PLAYWRIGHT
Amy Stolls
WRITER
Andrew Quintman
WRITER & ACADEMIC
Andrew Schelling
POET & TRANSLATOR
Anita Anand
WRITER & BROADCASTER
Anne Hillerman
WRITER & JOURNALIST
Anne Waldman
POET & CULTURAL ACTIVIST
Anosh Irani
WRITER
Arsen Kashkashian
BOOKSELLER & BROADCASTER
Barbara Engel
WRITER & ACADEMIC
Christina Lamb
WRITER & JOURNALIST
Crisosto Apache
WRITER & POET
Dan-el Padilla Peralta
WRITER & ACADEMIC
David Baron
WRITER & JOURNALIST
David Shneer
ACADEMIC
Devesh Kapur
WRITER & ACADEMIC
Donna Zuckerberg
WRITER
Eleni Sikelianos
WRITER
Erika T. Wurth
WRITER & POET
Holly Gayley
WRITER & ACADEMIC
Irene Vilar
WRITER & ACTIVIST
Ishaan Tharoor
JOURNALIST
Janice Gould
POET
Jeanine Canty
WRITER & ACADEMIC
Johanna Hanink
WRITER & ACADEMIC
John Elliott
WRITER & JOURNALIST
John Huston
WRITER & EXPLORER