Evelyn Iritani International Business Reporter, Los Angeles Times
Evelyn Iritani is an international business reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She was part of a four-person team whose series on Wal-Mart won numerous awards, including the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, the George Polk Award for Economics Reporting and the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Newspaper Reporting. In 2002, a series she co-authored on China's manufacturing prowess won the Malcolm Forbes Award for Business Reporting from the Overseas Press Club. A Los Angeles Times fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy in 2000, she is the author of An Ocean Between Us: The Changing Relationship of Japan and the United States Told in Four Stories from the Life of an American Town." Prior to joining the Los Angeles Times in 1995, she worked at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Iritani earned her bachelor′s at the University of Washington and attended the University of Hawaii on a Gannett Fellowship for Asian Studies.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.
