Russell Gold is an award-winning investigative journalist at
The Wall Street Journal. Gold's reporting has taken him to five continents and above the Arctic Circle two times. In 2010, he was part of the award-winning
Wall Street Journal team that covered the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. His first book,
The Boom, was longlisted for the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the year prize in 2014. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two children.
