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Ross Gelbspan
Editor, Reporter, & Author
Ross Gelbspan is a retired editor and reporter with The Philadelphia Bulletin, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe.
At the Globe he conceived, directed and edited a series of articles that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984. In 1998, he published: The Heat Is On: the Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription (Perseus Books). The book received attention when President Clinton told the press he was reading it.
That year, Gelbspan and Dr. Paul Epstein convened a group of energy company presidents, economists and energy policy experts to refine a set of three interactive "macro-level" policy strategies to address the climate crisis. Those ideas formed the core of Gelbspan’s latest book, Boiling Point, which was published in 2004. The book received the lead review in the Sunday New York Times Book Review which was written by former US Vice President Al Gore. It was also honoured as one of the best science books of 2004 by Discover Magazine.
The “strategy solutions” spelled out in Boiling Point have been endorsed by a number of developing country NGOs. They were the subjects of a briefing to the management of Shell/EGYPT in Cairo. They were the subject of a short presentation at the World Bank at the invitation of the director of a G-8 Task Force on Renewable Energy. They have been endorsed by, among others, a former British Ambassador to the UN and the Environmental Commissioner of the European Union.
Gelbspan, a 31-year journalist, received his B.A. from Kenyon College and studied international relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is married to Anne Gelbspan, a non-profit developer of affordable housing. One daughter, Thea, is a Latin America program officer for Oxfam. His other daughter, Johanna, works at PriceWaterhouse Coopers where she audits financial instruments.