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 authored the Ping column on innovation for The New York Times (2007 to 2008). He is a member of the Board of Editors of In These Times and he edits a blog on Africa: http:/​/​africaworksgpz.com/​. He also publishes often on technological change, globalization, and culture, race and identity. He consults on development issues for non-profits. His latest book is "Married to Africa," a memoir about his marriage to a woman from Nigeria and their adventures in West Africa and the United States. In addition to writing, Zachary consults for various non-profits on development issues. He has taught journalism and writing at UC Berkeley and Stanford University.

Zachary is a fellow at the Insitute for Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and a fellow at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. He's taught writing and journalism at Stanford University and guest-lectured at many universities in the U.S. and abroad. He studied philosophy at the University of Albany in New York.

Zachary regularly contributes comments on current affairs to radio programs in the U.S., Britain and Africa. He has been interviewed by BBC, NPR's Marketplace, and Pacifica's KPFK (Los Angeles). He has research, written and directed television documentaries with the film-maker David Winton of San Francisco.

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 working at the Journal, Zachary worked at the San Jose Mercury News and at alternative weekly newspapers, including the Willamette Week of Portland, Oregon, the worker-owned News & Review of Santa Barbara, California and the Berkeley Barb, where he was a member of the last staff of this legendary weekly newspaper. He also worked as a writer and editor for Time Inc.'s Business 2.0 magazine.

Zachary is the author of four books: “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); “The Diversity Advantage: Multicultural Identity in the New World Economy” (2000; revised, 2003); and "Married to Africa: a love story" (2009).