Tom Mueller is a New York Times-bestselling author whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic and elsewhere. He has reported from 22 countries on a wide range of topics, with recent emphasis on fraud and institutional corruption. He has also been interviewed for shows and stories by 60 Minutes, New York Times, History Channel, Al Jazeera and others. This latest book is Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud, published this month by Penguin Random House (). This work, the result of 7 years of research and reporting and over 200 interviews with whistleblowers, traces the rise of whistleblowing as a legal and social phenomenon. It also explores the societal, economic and psychological drivers of whistleblowing, which include institutional corruption, revolving door and other extreme conflict of interest situations, the cult of secrecy and the psychoactive nature of money.Mueller was educated at Oxford (DPhil, Rhodes Scholar), Harvard (BA, summa cum laude), and Alief Hastings High School in rural Texas, home of the Fighting Bears. He also studied classical guitar in Seville, Spain, and worked as an associate in M&A at Goldman Sachs in their London and Frankfurt offices (but nobody’s perfect).
Tom Mueller will be a moderator on The Big Chill panel.
