WHO: Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times op-ed columnist

WHAT: Global Forum public lecture series

WHEN: 6:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 9

WHERE: Huntsman Hall G 06, 3730 Walnut St.

A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Nicholas D. Kristof writes an opinion column that appears twice a week in the New York Times. He previously served as associate managing editor of the Times, responsible for the Sunday Times.

Kristof, an early opponent of the Iraq war, writes most often about global health, poverty and gender issues in the developing world, in particular Darfur, an area he has visited eight times.

After joining The New York Times in 1984, initially covering economics, he served as a Times correspondent in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo. In 1990 Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, also a Times journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China's Tiananmen Square democracy movement. He won a second Pulitzer in 2006, for commentary for what the judges called "his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and that gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world."

Kristof’s public talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of the University of Pennsylvania Provost’s Global Forum.