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Peter Elkind
FORTUNE: Editor at Large; Best-Selling Author "The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Incredible Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron"
Writer Peter Elkind is an editor at large at Fortune magazine. Specializing in investigative stories, his works including in-depth pieces about Halliburton Corp., NYSE chief Dick Grasso's $140 million pay package, a "blood feud" between Volkswagen and General Motors, New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer, and Viktor Kozeny, known as "The Pirate of Prague" ("The Incredible Half-Billion-Dollar Azerbaijani Oil Swindle").
Peter Elkind is also author of "The Death Shift," a true-crime book about Texas nurse Genene Jones, convicted of killing children under her care. Elkind is co-author, with Bethany McLean, of "The Smartest Guys in the Room," a best-selling book about Enron. The 2005 documentary based on their book was nominated for an Academy Award.
Elkind has worked at Texas Monthly magazine, edited an award-winning Dallas weekly, and written for The New York Times Magazine and the Washington Post, among other publications. In addition, he has been a guest on numerous radio and television programs, including Nightline, CNN Newsnight, and The Charlie Rose Show.
Peter Elkind graduated from Princeton University in 1980. He lives in Texas.
Speech Topics
Eliot Spitzer
Print Journalism
Wall Street
Government Regulation of Business
Business Ethics
Enron
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