Charlie Radin is Director of Global Operations and Communications at Brandeis University. He worked at The Boston Globe for more than 30 years, serving as Middle East bureau chief from 2001-5, Far East bureau chief from 1993-6, and as a generalassignment foreign correspondent during the 1980s and ‘90s. Following the collapse of the Berlin Wall, he reported on numerous major issues in Europe, including the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the strengthening of the European Community and problems associated with mass immigration. Radin was also a Globe specialist on race and ethnicity and religion, winning the American Academy of Religion's first place award for in-depth reporting on religion in 2006.