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  • Nenad Pacek

    Nenad Pacek

    17 March 2011

    Nenad Pacek runs the Economist Corporate Network, which advises companies around the world, including Procter & Gamble, IBM and Kellogg on their emerging market...


  • Pain.Stephanie

    Stephanie Pain

    08 March 2011

    Stephanie Pain is a consultant for New Scientist with a PhD in deep-ocean biology. She created and for ten years edited New Scientist’s popular ‘Histories’ column, where the stories in Farmer Buckley’s Exploding Trousers started...


  • Mark Palmer

    Mark Palmer

    18 February 2013

    Mark Palmer, has written for national newspapers and magazines for more than thirty years. He was formerly with the Daily Telegraph and is now with the Daily Mail. He is a member of the Quaker...


  • Rithy Panh copyright Richard Dumas

    Rithy Panh

    18 February 2013

    Rithy Panh was born in Cambodia in 1965. He is a film-maker whose documentaries, including Rice People, S 21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine and Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell have achieved an...


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    Tim Parks

    08 March 2011

    Tim Parks has lived in Italy since 1981. He is the author of eleven novels, three accounts of life in Italy, two collections of essays and many translations of Italian...


  • Frank Partnoy

    Frank Partnoy

    08 March 2011

    Frank Partnoy is the George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance and the co-director of the Center for Corporate and Securities Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, where he has...


  • Perez.Joseph

    Joseph Perez

    08 March 2011

    Joseph Perez is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Bordeaux and Honorary Director of the Velazquez museum in Madrid. His books include a history of Spain under Philip II and biographies of Ferdinand...


  • Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

    Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

    03 March 2011

    Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini started his academic career in Italy and France as a bio-physicist and molecular biologist and is now Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of...


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    Padgett Powell

    08 March 2011

    Padgett Powell has published five novels-–Edisto, A Woman Named Drown, Edisto Revisited, Mrs. Hollingsworth’s Men and The Interrogative Mood, and two story collections. Edisto made TIME’s Best-of-Year Fiction list and was a nominee for the...



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