Bernhard Warner is a former senior writer at
Fortune. He wrote the weekly
Breakthrough column, a probing look at the latest innovations addressing the world’s biggest challenges. He also served as co-chair of
Fortune’s
Global Forum. For several years, he served as a
Reuters correspondent covering the Internet, technology, and media industries, and he has written for the
Guardian’s Long Read,
The Atlantic,
Slate’s The Big Money, Bloomberg
Businessweek,
Wired, and
Inc. He also co-produced two short, award-winning documentary films—one of which,
Maisha, about child miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was screened at the United Nations. Earlier in his career, he chronicled the rise and fall of the first dotcom boom for
Adweek and the
Industry Standard. He is based in Rome.