Edward Alden Biography
Edward Alden is an American journalist, novelist, and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Alden focuses in economic competitiveness in the United States, trade policy in the United States, and visa and immigration policy in the United States.
Edward Alden Age
He was born on April 1961,in Schenectady, New York, United States of America. Edward is 62 years old as of April 2023.
Edward Alden Family-Education
Edward Alden grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, after being born in Schenectady, New York. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia and his master’s degree in international relations and foreign affairs from the University of California, Berkeley.
Edward Alden Books- Career
Alden is currently the Ross Distinguished Professor in Business and Economics at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. Alden formerly worked as the Financial Times’ Washington bureau chief, a correspondent for the Vancouver Sun, and the managing editor of Inside US Trade. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Fortune, and The Globe and Mail, as well as appearing on PBS NewsHour, NPR, BBC, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. His essay “The Story of One Man’s Immigration Ordeal,” published in Newsweek in 2011, drew global notice. The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration, and Security is written by Alden. Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy, a finalist for the Lukas Book Prize, and Since 9/11.
The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration, and Security Since 9/11 (2008), Alden’s first book, was a finalist for the Lukas Book Prize.” In their ruling, the judges stated, “Exceptional journalism is required to take immigration — a neglected sideshow in the nation’s globe-girding response to the September 11 attacks — and make the topic as evocative of America’s misplaced values as the Iraq War and the tolerance for torture.” Alden returned as a prize judge the following year, in 2010. U.S. Immigration Policy (2009), co-authored with Jeb Bush and Thomas F. McLarty; U.S. Trade and Investment Policy (2011), co-authored with Andrew Card, Matthew J. Slaughter, and Thomas Daschle; and How America Stacks Up: Economic Competitiveness and U.S. Policy (2016), co-authored with Rebecca Strauss.
Edward Alden Net Worth
Alden has an estimated net worth of 3 million dollars.