G. Pascal Zachary

G. Pascal Zachary is a journalist, author and teacher. He spent 13 years as a senior writer for The Wall Street Journal (1989 to 2001) and writes regularly for newspapers, magazines and journals, including Salon, Foreign Policy, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Wilson Quarterly, Fortune and Alternet. Zachary concentrates on African affairs. He also writes on globalization, America’s role in world affairs, immigration, race and identity and the dysfunctionalities and divisions in U.S. society.

Zachary teaches journalism at Stanford University. He's lectured on various campuses, including MIT, Caltech, Puget Sound, UC Berkeley, Connecticut and Tufts. He is a fellow at the Insitute for Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and a senior associate at the Nautilus Institute in San Francisco. Currently, he is writing a book on the political economy of sub-Saharan Africa and a memoir of his marriage to an African, the Igbo hair braider, Chizo Okon. They live with their children in the San Francisco Bay Area.

At The Wall Street Journal, Zachary wrote more than 80 page-one articles and in the year 2000 was described by The Boston Globe as “the single most interesting journalist of all the [Journal’s] 700-plus highly-talented reporters.” Prior to his tenure at the Journal, Zachary worked at the San Jose Mercury News and at counter-culture newspapers, including Willamette Week in Portland, Oregon, the worker-owned Santa Barbara News and Review and the legendary Berkeley Barb, where he was part of the final staff.

Zachary is the author of three works: “Showstopper,” about the making of the Windows NT computer program (1994); “Endless Frontier,” the biography of Vannevar Bush, organizer of the Manhattan Project and architect of the partnership between science and the military during World War Two (1997); and “The Diversity Advantage: Multicultural Identity in the New World Economy” (2000; revised, 2003).