Name: Giulia Di Domenico Birth place: Milan, Italy Age: 25 Occupation: Freelance translator for Blue Heron Research Partners and job seeker Languages: English, Italian and working on my Arabic Currently reading: “Island Beneath the Sea” by Isabel Allende...
Name: Akinyi Ochieng Birth place: London Age: 22 Occupation: Communications manager at the Global Shea Alliance Languages: English, French, Kiswahili and slowly learning Twi Currently reading: “White Mischief” by James Fox and “The Light of the...
By Nelson Graves The millennial generation is forcing wrenching change in business and finance, but it risks hitting a wall when retirement comes unless young people change their savings habits — or are forced to do so. Those are the conclusions of a top manager...
That’s the question we asked of News-Decoder’s “ambassadors” — an informal group of several dozen young adults around the world who have shown an interest in our mission. Nine of them video-taped their answers. Their heroes are as diverse...
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8HNukRMuw&w=580&h=400] Name: Paul Wasserman Birth place: New York City, USA Age: 23 Occupation: Research assistant for Zbigniew Brzezinski at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Languages:...
Name: Diego Emilio Cuesy Edgar Birth place: Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico Age: 26 Occupation: Public Policy Analyst at the Lab for the City in Mexico City Graduated with honors from Tec de Monterrey with a bachelor’s degree in International Affairs. First...
Name: Emefa Addo Agawu Birth place: Ithaca, New York Age: 22 Occupation: Research assistant, Empirical Studies of Conflict Project at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. Graduated in May from Yale College with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science....
Name: Léa Surugue Birth place: Paris, France Age: 22 Occupation: Recent graduate from City University in London with a master’s in international journalism Languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese Currently reading: “Too big to fail,” by...
By Nelson Graves Today we published an article on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one of the world’s thorniest and most important issues. The article is the fifth in our series of “decoders” that provide essential background to complicated global...
Today we published our first backgrounder, “Decoding China.” News-Decoder’s mission is to help young people make sense of the world. Our backgrounders aim to explain simply and clearly the background to major issues — without polemics. They...