Guillaume Pitron (Author) Guillaume Pitron, who was born in 1980, is a French journalist, author, and documentary-maker. He holds master's degrees in law from the University of Paris and in international law from Georgetown University. He worked as a lawyer before becoming a journalist for Le Monde Diplomatique, Geo, and National Geographic, and is the director of several documentaries on the exploitation of raw materials, notablyBoomerang- the dark side of the chocolate bar and The Rare Earths Dirty War. Bianca Jacobsohn (Translator) A South African and French national, Bianca Jacobsohn has over ten years' in-the-field experience as a translator/interpreter in the energy and finance sectors, and has accompanied French and South African ministers from Paris to Pretoria.