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Philanthrocapitalism Under Fire: A Call for Responsible Giving

February 17, 2019

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Brexit: The Point of No Return? What Can Be Done

February 03, 2019

Brexit no-deal Brexit People's vote

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The Logical Way to Reform Europe - Why It Could Fail

January 28, 2019

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Populism's Broken Promises in America and Europe: Two Emblematic Cases

January 24, 2019

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Murderers in the Mediterranean: How to Stop Them

January 21, 2019

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Brexit Deadlock: What Next?

January 16, 2019

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2018: A Watershed Year. Will 2019 Finish the Job?

January 04, 2019

Climate change populism Trump

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Yellow Vests Protests: The Roots of French Discontent

December 10, 2018

France Gilets Jaunes protests yellow vests

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G20 Surprise Show: Truce wth China, Summit Shaped by Europe

December 02, 2018

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Populism in Europe: Can the New Left Defeat it?

November 25, 2018

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The Future: America vs. Eurasia

November 17, 2018

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Trump's Hold on International Trade and Finance

November 10, 2018

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Trump's Midterms Strategy: Fear and Anger

November 04, 2018

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Claude Forthomme: A Columbia University graduate, Claude is an economist with a 25 year career at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), starting as a project evaluation specialist and ending as FAO Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia. Since 2004, she is a delegate of the Order of Malta to FAO, World Food Programme and IFAD. Before her UN experience, she had worked in banking, publishing, journalism, marketing, and was a lecturer in economics (Washington U.).

She has contributed to Publishing Perspectives and several other online publications and is currently Senior Editor and columnist at Impakter, a magazine for millennials with a unique section on the United Nations and the Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals).

She has also written fiction, in Italian under the pen name Claude Bonanno and in English as Claude Nougat (books available on Amazon). Following in the footsteps of her mother, Simone Ruyters, a successful portraitist in New York in the 1960's, Claude also paints and is a member of Artistes Indépendants (Paris). She has participated in numerous shows in Paris and Rome.

You can find her on Facebook, Twitter, and Thingser, the new social network to discuss current events ("things that matter to you") with friends.

She is married and lives in Italy.

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