Named by The Guardian as one of 27 “podcasts to make you smarter” (alongside shows like Planet Money and This American Life) Global Dispatches is a global affairs podcast with impact.
Guests have included journalists like Nick Kristof, Fareed Zakaria, Arwa Damon, Clarissa Ward and Robin Wright; policymakers including former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, former Ireland President Mary Robinson, David Miliband, Lee Hamilton, US Senator Chris Murphy, Senator George Mitchell; Scholars like Stephen Walt, Vali Nasr, Graham Allison, Jeffrey Sachs, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Reza Aslan, Joseph Nye; and social entrepreneurs like MSF President Dr. Joanne Liu, 2016 Nobel Peace Prize winner Beatrice Fihn, and Micro-lending pioneer Jessica Jackley. An equal number of women as men appear as guests.
Episodes often shine a spotlight on under covered global issues and listeners leave each episode informed, inspired and more deeply engaged in the world around them.
Global Dispatches is available at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and everywhere podcasts are available
About Mark:
Mark Leon Goldberg is the editor of the United Nations and global affairs blog UN Dispatch and host of the Global Dispatches Podcast. Mark’s work has been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, The American Prospect, Foreign Policy,The Globe and Mail, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New Republic, and The Daily Beast. He appears regularly as an an on-air guest for Al Jazeera English, National Public Radio, the BBC and HuffPo Live.
He has a Master of Arts in Security Studies from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University.
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