Predator Nation

Charles H. Ferguson won an Oscar in 2011 for Inside Job, his documentary on the financial crisis, and was an Oscar nominee for his first documentary, No End In Sight, on the war in Iraq.  He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, holds a PhD in Political Science from MIT, and has been a technology policy consultant to the White House and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, as well as to leading technology companies including Apple, IBM, and Texas Instruments.  He was the co-founder of Vermeer Technologies, which invented the web tool Front Page, later sold to Microsoft.  A former visiting scholar at MIT and Berkeley, he has also been a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.  He has written four books, and is a life member of the Council of Foreign Relations and a director of the French-American Foundation.