Illuminating the Arts-Policy Nexus 
Illuminating the Arts-Policy Nexus is a fortnightly series of articles on the role of art in public policymaking. This series invites WPI fellows and project leaders as well as external practitioners to contribute pieces on how artists have led policy change and how policymakers can use creative strategies.
In Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World, World Policy Institute Senior Fellow Ian Bremmer illustrates a historic shift in the international system and the world economy—and an unprecedented moment of global uncertainty.
Christopher Shay
Managing Editor, World Policy Journal
Contact:
shay@worldpolicy.org
(212) 481-5005 x486
Twitter: @ChrisBurkeShay
Website: http://chez-shay.com
Expertise: Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Thailand, Cambodia, ASEAN, migration, human trafficking, photography
Experience: Christopher Shay spent four years as an award-winning journalist and photographer in Southeast Asia, covering everything from slavery on Thai fishing boats to Bangladesh’s elite police force to Burma’s bumbling quest for nuclear weapons. He had one-year stints at the Phnom Penh Post, where his investigative pieces won the paper a SOPA award, and TIME magazine, where he wrote some of the year’s most read articles. His work has been published by the Wall St. Journal, TIME, CNN, TED, and the Far Eastern Economic Review.
Education:
Ba, anthropology, Columbia University, Summa Cum Laude
SELECTED ARTICLES
Book Review: "Out of Mao's Shadow." Far Eastern Economic Review. Sept. 5, 2008.
“Escape from Hell on the High Sea” Phnom Penh Post. Dec. 19, 2008
“Cambodia’s Trial of the Century, Televised.” TIME. Sept. 11, 2009
“In Cambodia, a Deportee Breakdances to Success” TIME. Sept. 19, 2009
“Is Cambodia Dredging its Rivers to Death?” TIME. May 15, 2010
“Cleaning Up Polluted Harbors with Greener Ships” TIME. Oct. 28, 2009
“In a Malaria Hot Spot, Resistance to a Key Drug” TIME. Nov. 14, 2009
“Should Anthropologists Go to War?” TIME. Dec. 13, 2009
“Thailand's Blue Diamond Heist: Still a Sore Point" TIME. Mar. 7. 2010
“Bone Marrow Transplants: When Race Is an Issue” TIME. June 03, 2010
"Is Burma's Junta Trying to Join the Nuclear Club?" TIME. July 09, 2010
“After Murder, South Korea Rethinks Marriage Brokers” TIME. Aug. 17, 2010
"China’s Great (Quantum) Leap Forward” TIME. Sept. 09, 2010
“Why Electric Cars Aren’t Selling” Wall St. Journal. Jan. 21, 2011
“Has Bangladesh's Elite Police Force Gone Too Far?” TIME. June 19, 2011
“Saving Dhaka’s Heritage” BBC. Aug. 11, 2011
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