Peter W. Klein is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and filmmaker. He has reported from around the globe for CBS News 60 Minutes, as well as other network programs. He writes for US publications and oversees independent productions out of his studio in Vancouver. He is also the director of the University of British Columbia School of Journalism, and runs the school’s International Reporting Program. In 2009-2010 he was the host of the national Canadian public affairs program The Standard.
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Watch Peter’s latest project, a documentary with the International Reporting Program examining how the war on drugs has left tens of millions of patients around the globe have no access to painkillers. He and a team of faculty members and graduate students went to Uganda, Ukraine and India to see firsthand the effects of this largely-hidden human rights crisis.