Adam Tanner

Adam Tanner is an associate and fellow at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science, where he has written What Stays in Vegas and Our Bodies, Our Data. Both books investigate the worldwide market in personal data. He is also a researcher at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School.

He is an expert on the impact of the West on the rest of the world through colonialism, empire, and economic engagement, as well as on the influence in turn of Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Pacific on European and U.S. history. He spent much of his career living and reporting on both sides of Europe’s East-West divide, including in Moscow, Berlin, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans. Adam has served as Reuters news agency bureau chief for the Balkans and San Francisco, and correspondent in Berlin, Moscow and Washington D.C. He went to high school in Italy and now lives in a medieval town that once served as a central nexus of East-West trade -- Venice.

Adam has appeared on the BBC, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and VOA, and he has written for Scientific American, Forbes, Fortune, Time and MIT Technology Review. Fun Fact: While in college, he appeared as a contestant on Italy’s most popular evening variety show.

Adam Tanner is an associate and fellow at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science

Language spoken: English