David Andelman

Executive Editor, Forbes.com

BIG IDEAS

• A Shattered Peace
  David shares his perspective of what he believes was a turning point in the history of our nation and the world today. From Iraq and Israel, to Kosovo and the Balkans, China, Japan and Vietnam, the great conflicts of our own time had their origins back in those few months in Paris nearly a century ago. A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today explores the characters, large and small, who came to Paris, determined to transform the world. Many later became bold-faced names: Ho Chi Minh, Lawrence of Arabia, Felix Frankfurter, Marcel Proust, even Elsa Maxwell who helped introduce le jazz Americain to her fabulous salons in that epiphanal year of 1919.

SNAPSHOT BIO

David A. Andelman is Executive Editor of Forbes.com, the world's largest business and financial website.  Earlier this year, Andelman was named editor of the World Policy Journal, a non-partisan source of progressive global policy analysis and thought leadership.  In his new role, David will lead the transformation of the World Policy Institute's flagship quarterly, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary in Fall 2008.  He has served as a domestic and foreign correspondent for The New York Times in various posts in New York and Washington, as Southeast Asia bureau chief, based in Bangkok, then East European bureau chief, based in Belgrade. He then moved to CBS News where he served for seven years as Paris Correspondent. He has traveled through, and reported from, more than 50 countries. There followed service as a Washington correspondent for CNBC, news editor of Bloomberg News and Business Editor of the New York Daily News before coming to Forbes. He is the author of three books: The Peacemakers, published by Harper & Row; The Fourth World War, published by William Morrow, which he co-authored with the Count de Marenches, long-time head of French intelligence; and A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today, published in October 2007 by John Wiley & Sons. Mr. Andelman has written for such publications as Harpers, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Grolier Club.