Katherine Stapp

Katherine Stapp (Regional Editor) has written for IPS since 1999. Based in New York City, her special interests include environment and public health issues.

Thalif Deen

Thalif Deen has been U.N. Bureau Chief since 1992, covering political, economic and social issues related to the United Nations and U.N. agencies. Currently, he is also editor of the U.N. edition of the IPS journal TerraViva, which is widely circulated in the U.N. community. He has been runner-up and cited twice for "excellence in U.N. reporting" at the annual awards presentation of the U.N. Correspondents' Association. A former Information Officer at the U.N. Secretariat and a one-time member of the Sri Lanka delegation to the General Asssembly sessions, he is currently editor of the Journal of the Group of 77, published in collaboration with IPS. A Fulbright-Hayes scholar, he holds a Master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University in New York.

Emad Mekay

Emad Mekay is the IPS trade and finance correspondent, based in Washington, D.C. He joined IPS in October 2001, and has since broken several stories related to controversial activities of the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He has also reported widely on the activities of the anti-globalisation movement, both in the United States and elsewhere in the world.

He was a winner of the 2003 Project Censored award from California's Sonoma State University for his 2002 story on the shady dealings of shamed multinationals Enron and Worldcom in the developing world.

Jim Lobe

A proud native of Seattle, Washington, Jim Lobe received a B.A. degree with highest honors in history at Williams College and a J.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall School of Law). He joined IPS in 1979 and opened its Washington, D.C. bureau in 1980. He has worked for IPS from Washington for most of the past 23 years.

Other Correspondents

Canada: Mark Bourrie, Paul Weinberg, Stephen Leahy

· U.N. and New York: Akhilesh Upadhyay, Haider Rizvi

Caribbean: Dionne Jackson Miller, Peter Richards, Bert Wilkinson, Ives Marie Chanel, Howard Campbell