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.
Ari Winkleman
Senior Designer
Ari Winkleman is the lead designer at Eurasia Group and GZERO Media.
Feb 16, 2018
Over two decades on from the end of apartheid, South Africa’s leaders have struggled to translate the momentous achievement of political freedom into greater opportunity for all. Here’s a snapshot of unemployment in the country over the terms of its four post-apartheid presidents.