David L. Goldwyn is the founder and president of Goldwyn International
Strategies LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in offering advice
in the energy business, and an Adjunct Professor at Colombia University’s
School of Public and International Affairs and Georgetown University’s
School of Foreign Service teaching the Geopolitics of Energy. He has held
many senior positions in government, including Assistant Secretary of
Energy for International Affairs in the Clinton Administration. At the
Department of Energy, Goldwyn was the principal advisor to Secretary Bill
Richardson on international energy policy, international science and technology
policy, and trade and investment issues. Goldwyn has been a commentator
on energy issues on the BBC, NPR’s Marketplace and All Things Considered,
the Washington Post and CNN’S Financial News Network.

Mark Danner is a Professor of Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate
School of Journalism, Staff Writer at The New Yorker and author of “The
Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War”.

The Goldman Forum on the Press and Foreign Affairs is a series of lectures,
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issues are covered in the American press – and how they can be covered
more effectively.

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