Geoffrey Cain is an award-winning foreign correspondent, author, commentator, anthropologist and scholar of East and Central Asia. His first book, Samsung Rising, from a decade of his coverage inside the world’s largest technology conglomerate, will be published in March 2020 by Penguin Random House.

A former correspondent at The Economist, Cain is a regular commentator in The Wall Street Journal, Time, Foreign Policy, The New Republic and The Nation, and a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, BBC and Bloomberg. Cain writes about the ways that technology is upending our lives, communities, governments and businesses. His work takes him to the world’s most authoritarian and far-off places, from inside North Korea to the trans-Siberian railway across Russia, from investigations into genocide in Cambodia to experiments in technological surveillance in China.

Cain is sought out as a consultant on government and technology, having advised the World Health Organization, Open Government Partnership, the United Nations humanitarian affairs office, and major multinational corporations and investment firms. A Fulbright scholar, he holds degrees from London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and The George Washington University, which he attended on a music scholarship. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Born in Los Angeles and raised in Chicago, Cain lives in Istanbul, Turkey and Washington, DC. He plays the jazz trombone.

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