Nicholas Stein is an award-winning investigative journalist. His articles for Fortune, where he served as a staff writer from 1999 to 2005, ranged from Russian organized insurance fraud (”Inside Operation Boris“) to the rise of indentured servitude in Asian factories (”No Way Out“) to the FDA’s war on raw milk cheese (”Would You Like Cheese with That“). He has also written for Men’s Vogue, Best Life, Parade, The Globe and Mail, Foreign Policy, and the Columbia Journalism Review.

Stein is the recipient of numerous journalism awards. In 2004, the World Leadership Forum in London awarded him two Business Journalist of the Year awards, one for “Boris” and another for “Crisis in a Coffee Cup,” a detailed examination of the global coffee crisis and its impact on farmers in Latin America and Vietnam. In 2002, he was awarded his first Business Journalist of the Year award for ” The De Beers Story: A New Cut on an Old Monopoly“, a profile of the diamond industry giant. Stein’s investigative feature on the decline and fall of banana behemoth Chiquita Brands, “Yes, We Have No Profits,” was anthologized in the 2003 edition of the Best Business Stories of the Year.

Stein has taught classes at New York University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and holds a BA in English from McGill University and a Masters in Journalism from Columbia.