About
Richard Martin is an Analyst for Gigaom Research and an editorial director for Navigant Research, with responsibilities including the firm’s relationships with media organizations as well as providing content management and editorial direction for the Navigant Research Blog and other publications. Martin has more than 20 years of journalism experience covering energy, technology, and international affairs.
A contributing editor for Wired, Martin is an expert on the conjunctions of technology, the energy industry, and foreign policy. His work has appeared in Time, Fortune, The Atlantic, The Asian Wall Street Journal, and many other publications, and his article The God Particle & the Grid (Wired, April 2004) was selected for Best Science Writing of 2004. He has held senior editorial leadership positions at ABCNews.com, the Industry Standard, and InformationWeek. His book on thorium power, SuperFuel, was published by Macmillan Science in May 2012. Martin was educated at Yale University and the University of Hong Kong.