Senior Writer
Willis Sparks
Senior Writer
Willis Sparks is a senior editor for GZERO Daily. He is also a Director in the Global Macro practice at Eurasia Group, where he has worked since 2005. He has made speeches on international politics on every continent except Antarctica. Willis holds degrees from Brown University, the Juilliard School, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. He also holds an honorary degree from the Moscow Art Theatre School. A native of Macon, Georgia, Willis has worked as a stuntman at New York's Metropolitan Opera. As a child, he declined an opportunity to spend an afternoon riding the Great American Scream Machine, a rollercoaster, with Ronald McDonald, for money. He has never regretted that decision.
Aug 03, 2018
Remember two months ago when your Friday author provided you freshly snapped personal photographs of ostriches living in splendor at the mansion of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych outside Kyiv? Imagine my horror on seeing the report that Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager who also worked for Yanukovych, has paid $15,000 for an ostrich-skin suit. Your Signal team is working overtime to verify whether our friend the Ukrainian ostrich paid for this outfit with his life.
