Author, journalist and current editor of the Marshall Islands Journal, Giff Johnson will be the 26th speaker in the University of Guam’s Presidential Lecture Series. The lecture will be held on Monday, October 19 at the College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences (CLASS) Lecture Hall located on the UOG Campus.  

Johnson’s lecture is entitled “Idyllic No More: Pacific Island Climate, Corruption and Development Dilemmas.”

About Giff Johnson
Giff Johnson is editor of the Marshall Islands Journal, the independent weekly newspaper published in Majuro, and a contributor to several news media in the Pacific. He is the author of “Idyllic No More: Pacific Islands Climate, Corruption and Development Dilemmas,” published in 2015, “Don't Ever Whisper — Darlene Keju: Pacific Health Pioneer, Champion for Nuclear Survivors,” published in 2013, and “Nuclear Past, Unclear Future,” a history of the U.S. nuclear testing program in the Marshall Islands, published in 2009. He has lived and worked in Majuro since 1984.

He has also been a basketball official for over 40 years, and coached several Marshall Islands national men’s and women’s basketball teams in Micronesia regional competition. His son, Iohaan, is attending the University of Guam and his daughter is in high school in Singapore.