Andrew Quinn
Director, New Voices Fellowship, The Aspen Institute
Andrew Quinn is a long-time journalist who leads the Aspen Institute’s New Voices Fellowship, which is training a new cadre of experts from developing countries to communicate effectively in the media and play a larger role in championing solutions for global development work. He was previously a foreign correspondent with Reuters for more than 20 years, reporting on everything from post-Tiananmen China to the Baghdad trial of Saddam Hussein. Quinn’s more recent assignments also included a stint as Southern Africa bureau chief during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and more than three years traveling the world with then secretary of state Hillary Clinton as Reuters’ State Department correspondent.
Previously
Polio is likely to be wiped off the planet in the next two years, a huge triumph for global health. Seventy-four cases of polio were reported in 2015, in contrast to 350,000 w...