Orville Schell
University of California at Berkeley

Orville Schell has devoted much of his career to reporting and writing on Asia. He is author of fourteen books, including Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood and Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders and has written for such publications as Wired, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Harper's, and Newsweek. Schell has been the recipient of several writing fellowships from the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center and is the winner of numerous awards, including the Harvard/Stanford Shorenstein Award for Asian Journalism, Overseas Press Club of America's Award for The Best Article on a Foreign Subject, a Mencken Award for the Best Feature and a Page One Award for the Best Investigative Story. He has served as a network television commentator and as a consultant for projects including several PBS "Frontline" documentaries. Schell serves on the boards of Human Rights Watch, the Sundance Documentary Fund jury, and the Social Science Research Council. He is also a member of the Pacific Council, the Council on Foreign Relations and a regular particpant in the World Economic Forum at Davos. Schell is currently the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.