Derek Thompson
Senior Editor, Business, The Atlantic
Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine, where he writes a blog about economic policy and edits the website's coverage of business. He is a former visiting research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. Thompson has written for Slate, BusinessWeek and the Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on numerous radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC and MSNBC.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.