b'[contd] markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, and a reporter in Russia and Brussels .SPECIAL SKILLS A mindset scarred by the Tajik civil war (that assumes that the worst case might happen) . A taste for adventure and obsessive curiosity . W GEOFF e REY lW ESTcodenam :go den ratiosanta fe institute//shannandistinguished professor and pastpresident ,science steering committeesGeoffrey West is the Shannan Distinguished Professor and former President of the Santa Fe Institute . Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics, especially those concerning the elementary particles, their interactions and cosmological implications . West served as SFI President from July 2005 through July 2009 . Prior to joining the Santa Fe Institute as a Distinguished Professor in 2003, he was the leader, and founder, of the high energy physics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he is one of only approximately ten Senior Fellows .He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was one of their Centenary Speakers in 2003 . He has been a lecturer in many popular and distinguished scientist series worldwide, as well as at the World Economic Forum . Among recent honors he was a co-receiver of the Mercer Award from the Ecological Society of America, the Weldon Memorial Prize (2005), Oxford University and the Glenn Award for research on Aging and the APS Szilard Award (2013) .In 2006 he was named one of Time page 12'