Daniel Altman


 Biography

 Daniel Altman is an American-born author, journalist and economist. His
 latest book, Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy, was published
 in May 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is also the author of Neoconomy:
 George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble With America's Future
, which was
 published by PublicAffairs in 2004.

 Altman began his career as an academic economist with a doctorate from
 Harvard University. His first job outside the ivory tower was as the London-
 based economics correspondent for The Economist. Later he became one
 of the youngest-ever members of the editorial board of The New York Times.
 He current writes regular columns on globalization for the International Herald
 Tribune. In between, he was an economic adviser to the British government.

 For the past year, Altman has been writing a weekday blog for the Herald
 Tribune called Managing Globalization. He lives in Buenos Aires, Hong
 Kong and New York.


 Photo: Ale Lipszyc