Jason Miklian, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the Centre for Development and Environment, University of Oslo. He has published more than 60 academic and policy works on issues of conflict and crisis and serves on the United Nations Expert Panel on Business and Human Rights. He has also written for or has been cited by The New York Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, France 24, The Guardian, The Hindu (India), and the BBC and NPR. Co-written with author and investigative journalist Scott Carney, The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation (Ecco) tells the dramatic story of how a storm sparked a country to a liberation war in what is now Bangladesh. In November 1970, a storm set a collision course with Earth’s most densely populated coastline, East Pakistan in the Bay of Bengal. In just a few hours, the Great Bhola Cyclone would kill 500,000 people and begin a chain reaction of turmoil, genocide, and war. Pakistan was then on the brink of a historic election. The fallout from the storm’s impact ignited a conflagration of political intrigue, corruption, violence, idealism, and bravery. In The Vortex, Miklian and Carney take us deep into the story, told through the eyes of the men and women who lived through it.