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Michael Soussan currently works full time as an LA-based screenwriter and producer (on projects like M.A.D. that have garnered coverage from VARIETY) , and many others.

A public speaker, screenwriter, book author and journalist, Michael Soussan is a strategic media adviser. He has contributed articles and interviews to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Time, NPR, the BBC, Salon, and and a range of international media, including special coverage of women's rights in conflict zones for the Huffington Post. . He has worked at CNN, at the United Nations, and on K Street in Washington DC. A native of Denmark, he grew up in Paris, then studied international affairs at Brown University (where he founded The Brown Journal of World Affairs) . He earned his Masters from Sciences-Po (Paris) and pursued further film studies at NYU. He also taught popular and top-student-reviewed classes at New York University's Center for Global Affairs.

In 2004, he blew the whistle on the “largest and most corrupt humanitarian operation in UN history” (As described by PBS’s Margaret Warner). His wrote a book about the experience, ironically titled “Backstabbing for Beginners” The book became a Wall Street Journal “Book of the Year,” and was picked as "Book of the Week" by CNN's Fareed Zakaria, who called it "a great book and a fun read" and The Guardian's Stephen Poole. The Sunday Times wrote of Michael's work:

“Soussan landed the job of his dreams, working for the United Nations on the biggest aid programme it had ever attempted. However, anyone familiar with the tales of Soussan's fellow countryman Hans Christian Andersen will expect dark truths to emerge from the most apparently innocent exteriors. Even to the cynics […] this book will come as a revelation.”

– The Sunday Times

The book was adapted to feature film by author Daniel Pyne (who also adapted Tom Clancy’s "The Sum of All Fears", "The Manchurian Candidate", and "Any Given Sunday"). The film, reviewed here by VARIETY MAGAZINE was directed by “Scandi-Noir” Auteur filmmaker Per Fly, starred Sir Ben Kingsley and Theo James (Insurgent, Divergent). It is distributed globally by Universal and in the US by A24/Direct TV. Click here for the trailer.

Soussan has taken engagements in Iraq, the Congo and Afghanistan, working for intelligence consultancies and top-rate Public Relations firms, offering services as both a ghost and speechwriter and (as a founding partner at GoodLoop Media) multi-media producer for a variety of clients Doctors of the World, Humanity in Action, Fenton PR, Ogilvy PR and many other clients.

Public Speaker: Michael Soussan has been invited to speak by various corporations. He has testified before the House International Relations Committee of the US Congress, and spoken to The Harvard Club of New York, The London School Economics, Johns Hopkins University, the United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), and has appeared live on CNN, the BBC, SKY NEWS, a range of NPR stations, and has been a subject in a range of released documentaries. More recent appearances include MSNBC's Morning Joe and AOL build (click links for videos).

You may contact me through the yellow button at the top of the page. I am currently primarily available for media appearances, screenwriting and speaking engagements, but welcome and reply to mail from all readers, viewers, and like-minded souls.