Todd Moss, formerly a top U.S. State Department official, is a writer and policy analyst in Washington DC. His day job is running the Energy for Growth Hub, a global research network. Todd is also affiliated with the Center for Global Development, Rice University's Baker Institute, and the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines. Todd has previously worked at the World Bank, Georgetown University, and the London School of Economics.

Todd writes thrillers in the early hours. His debut novel THE GOLDEN HOUR (Penguin's Putnam, 2014) follows diplomat Judd Ryker, who has 100 hours to reverse a coup in Mali, rescue a kidnapped Peace Corps volunteer, and prevent a terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy. In MINUTE ZERO (2015), Ryker fights to stop a dictator from stealing a violent election in Zimbabwe. In GHOSTS OF HAVANA (2016), Ryker is dispatched on a secret mission to negotiate the release of four American soccer dads who were captured by the Cuban navy while fishing off the Florida Keys. THE SHADOW LIST (2017) takes Ryker deep into a murky web of Russian mobsters, Nigerian scammers, and corrupt American politicians. Watch this space for Todd's next thriller.

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Caroline Lambert is an award-winning former journalist who works as a writing collaborator, ghostwriter and coach, helping people share their ideas and stories.

During her eight years as a staff writer and Deputy Asia Editor for The Economist, Caroline wrote about business, economics and politics in various parts of the world. She won the Diageo Africa Business Reporting Award and the Sanlam Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism for her coverage of Africa from Johannesburg. Her other assignments included covering post-conflict situations—and at times not so “post”—reporting from Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Zimbabwe and Algeria, among others.

Caroline Lambert holds an M.B.A from INSEAD and an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She also is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), and a former Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development.

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