Experts
Naomi Klein
Economist; Author
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Naomi Klein: What is your counsel?
Citizens need to take back their political systems, says Klein. Read More
January 27, 2008 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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Why are we so passive about the big issues and so riled up about the little things? Read More
January 27, 2008 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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You Can't Always Start From Scratch
The notion that humanity can always begin again after disaster is a dangerous idea, says Naomi Klein. Read More
January 27, 2008 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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Naomi Klein on Sparking a Movement for Social Change
Naomi Klein on sparking movements for social change Read More
January 27, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Naomi Klein: The Montreal Massacre
A critical moment in Canadian history pushed Klein into politics. Read More
January 27, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Naomi Klein: Why do you write?
Klein hopes her analysis will provide some clarity for the over-stimulated citizen. Read More
January 27, 2008 | In Identity
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Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein on disaster capitalism Read More
January 27, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Naomi Klein: Are markets taking on traditional government functions?
There's been a fusion of big government and big business, says Klein. Read More
January 27, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Naomi Klein on Global Neoliberalism
Naomi Klein on the end of "El Modelo." Read More
January 27, 2008 | In Politics & Policy, World
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Naomi Klein: When did economics spark your interest?
Klein says she was forced to teach herself economics. Read More
January 27, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Klein is a teacher and an activist. Read More
January 27, 2008 | In Identity
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The embarrassment of growing up in the 1980s with 1960s parents. Read More
January 27, 2008 | In Identity
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and #1 international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. In 2008 it won the Canadian Booksellers Association’s Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year and is longlisted for the inaugural 2009 Warwick Prize for Writing (UK). The six minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, was an Official Selection of the 2007 Venice Biennale and Toronto International Film Festivals and was a viral phenomenon, downloaded over a million times.Her first book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies was also an international bestseller, translated into over 28 languages with more than a million copies in print. A collection of her work, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate was published in 2002.Naomi Klein writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian that is syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Also in 2004, she co-produced The Take with director Avi Lewis, a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories. The film was an Official Selection of the Venice Biennale and won the Best Documentary Jury Prize at the American Film Institute’s Film Festival in Los Angeles. She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King’s College, Nova Scotia.
