Mark Hertsgaard is a journalist and author whose current work focuses on new ways of understanding and combating climate change. As an Open Society Fellow, he is writing a book examining the need to adapt to the inevitable dire consequences of global warming, even as we work to mitigate its harmful effects.

Hertsgaard covers the environment for the Nation and has written for numerous other publications, including the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Salon, the Guardian, Die Zeit and Le Monde. A partial listing of his articles can be found on his website.

Hertsgaard is the author of five previous books, which have been translated into fifteen languages, including most recently The Eagle's Shadow:  Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World (2002).  His other books are Earth Odyssey: Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future (1999), A Day In The Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles (1995), On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency (1988), and Nuclear Inc.:  The Men and Money Behind Nuclear Energy (1983).

Hertsgaard was also a 2006 Open Society Institute Katrina Media Fellow.

Communications Officer
Open Society Fellowship

Stephen Hubbell is communications officer for the Open Society Fellowship Program. He works closely with fellows to develop media strategies to broaden public awareness of their work.

Hubbell joined the Open Society Institute after 20 years as a journalist and editor. He has worked as a senior editor at Metropolitan Books and at Harper's, where he edited the work of many notable writers, including Anne Fadiman, Harold Brodkey, Elliott Currie, Marilynne Robinson, Alan Weisman, Arlie Hochschild, and Edward Fox. He has also served as Cairo correspondent for The Nation, for whom he covered the first Gulf War and the rise of political Islam in the Middle East.

He received his bachelor's degree in government from Wesleyan University.