Abrahm Lustgarten is a reporter at ProPublica, a new non-profit organization for investigative reporting. Previously, he was a staff writer for Fortune magazine, an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon's school of journalism, and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant for international reporting. His reporting and photography focus on the confluence of business and the environment in a globalized world -- from stories about the pharmaceutical industry experimenting on Russianl patients to the legacy of uranium contamination in Kazakhstan. He spent much of the last five years in Tibet, documenting its transformation at the hands of China's economic expansion, a project that resulted in his critically-acclaimed new book China's Great Train; Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet.

Abrahm's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire and Salon, among others. He holds a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, and a Bachelor's in Anthropology from Cornell.