Ram
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Grad Student/Investor |
| Location | Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | Typical Type A anti-anti-intellectual pro-enlightenment deist-fatalist Ben Franklin-Albert Einstein elitist par excellence. Ram Lau joined OnTheIssues/The SpeakOut Foundation in 2003. He is currently a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins University. He received his undergraduate degrees in Economics and Computer Science with highest honors from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006. He also minored in mathematics and international affairs at Georgia Tech, and worked six semesters as a full-time data analyst in the co-op internship program at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, a non-profit safety regulatory body established by the U.S. nuclear industry after the Three Mile Island incident in 1979. While not busy with school and work, he enjoys following financial news and current events, watching PBS and C-SPAN, participating in community service activities, and reading autobiographies of former US Presidents, dead politicians, and philanthropists that he admires. |
| Interests | Politics, Religions, Economics, History, Stocks, Movies, Sports, Humanitarianism |
| Favorite Movies | Schindler's List, American Beauty, Glory, All the President's Men, The Boys of Baraka, Pootie Tang, The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, Memento, The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, Bowling for Columbine |
| Favorite Books | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Tomorrow is Now by Eleanor Roosevelt, Make Gentle the Life of This World by Robert Kennedy, The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Just Peace by Mattie Stepanek and Jimm Carter, The Great Bridge by David McCullough, New York by Theodore Roosevelt, Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris, The World As I See It by Albert Einstein, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart Ehrman, Bloomberg by Bloomberg by Michael Bloomberg, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro, Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed by David Stockman, The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics by Hubert Humphrey, Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie |