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Michel Chossudovsky: Biographical Summary

28-11-2017 < Global Research 81 612 words
 

My wikipedia entry is subject to a routine almost daily wave of wiki-smear and disinformation.


Here is a Biographical summary


Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, Editor of Global Research.  He has taught as visiting professor in Western Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Latin America.


He has undertaken field research in Latin America, China, Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and has written extensively on the economies of developing countries with a focus on poverty and social inequality.


He has served as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and has acted as a consultant for several national and international organizations including the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the UNDP, the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the African Development Bank (ADB), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the ILO and the WHO.  He has also taught as visiting scholar at the UN African Institute for Economic and Social Planning (IDEP), Dakar.


Publications


He is the author of:


Eleven books including Towards Capitalist Restoration, Chinese Socialism after Mao (1986), The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order (1997, 2003), America’s “War on Terrorism” (2005), The Global Economic Crisis, The Great Depression of the Twenty-first Century (2009) (Co-Editor), Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War (2011), The Globalization of War, America’s Long War against Humanity (2015).


More than 800 articles, scholarly publications, chapters in books, major reports published by national and international organizations (ADB, UNFPA, CIDA, UNECLAC).


Conversations with Fidel Castro Ruz: The dangers of nuclear war, (October  11-15, 2010, available in several languages in print and online, chapter in book.


His writings have also appeared in Le monde diplomatique (Paris), The Journal of International Affairs (New York), the International Herald Tribune (and NYT),  Third World Resurgence,  The Ecologist (London UK), the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), The Nation (Bangkok), Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), La Presse (Montreal), L’Aut Journal (Montreal), Junge Welt (Berlin), Hankoreh (Seoul, ROK),  Global Times (Beijing), Frontline (India), Comercio Exterior (Mexico), Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai), Peace Magazine (Toronto), etc.


He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. EB Article on the World Bank


His writings have been published into more than twenty languages.


Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission


Michel Chossudovsky is a member of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC) under the helm of Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, former PM of Malaysia.


The KLWCC initiated the indictment against George W. Bush  et al  “for crimes of torture and war crimes”. (Judgement of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (KLWCT), 11 May 2012) and on “crimes of genocide” against the State of Israel, (Judgement of the Tribunal, November 25, 2013).


Awards 


Michel Chossudovsky is the recipient of


The Human Rights Prize, Society for Civil Rights and Human Dignity, Berlin (2002),


“Best Books in Germany” (media ranking), German edition of  Chossudovsky’s Globalization of Poverty, “Media Ranked no 2. best non-fiction titles in Germany” (2002),


Project Censored Award, State University of Sonoma, California, (2000- 2015, eight  awards).


Professor of the Year Award, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Social Sciences (2001).


Mexican Press Club award to Michel Chossudovsky and Global Research, First National Prize for the “best research website” at the international level (2008).


The Gold Medal for Merit of the Republic of Serbia for his writings on NATO’s war of aggression on Yugoslavia (2014).


Doctor honoris Causa in Humanities, National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, Managua.



The archive of Michel Chossudovsky’s 1000+ Global Research Articles 


He can be reached at [email protected]



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