Michael Reid

Michael Reid

Michael Reid (* 1952 ) is a British journalist, author and commentator with a focus on Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.

Life

Reid was born in Great Britain in 1952. He studied politics, philosophy and economics at Balliol College, Oxford . Since 1994 he has been on the editorial board of The Economist . He is the author of the Bello column on Latin America, named after the philosopher Andrés Bello , and is writer-at-large for the region. Between 1999 and December 2013, he was head of department for the Americas section of the magazine in Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada.

In 1982 he began his career as a freelance journalist in Lima, Peru with a focus on the Andean countries and reported until 1990, among others for the Guardian and the BBC . He joined the editorial team of The Economist in 1990 and became a correspondent for Mexico and Central America. In 1994 he shifted his focus to the consumer goods industry. Between 1996 and 1999 he was the head of the São Paulo office.

His books include "Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul" (2007) and "Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power" (April 2014). He was awarded the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism's Maria Moors Cabot Prize and the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross.

Michael Reid appears regularly as an expert in television, radio and print media, u. a. CNN , BBC World TV , NPR , Globo (Brazil) and El País (Spain). He was invited to serve as an expert on the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Senate and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the British House of Commons.

Michael Reid currently lives in Lima , Peru .

Works

• Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul . Yale University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-300-11616-8
• Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power . Yale University Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-300-16560-9

Web links

• Appearances on C-SPAN (English)
• Interview on Brazil , El País , June 4, 2014 (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Media directory , The Economist. Retrieved June 8, 2014. 
2. ^ Columbia News . Columbia University. July 7, 2003. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
3. ^ The Economist . April 27, 2000. Retrieved June 7, 2014. 
4. ↑ C-SPAN Video, US Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps and Global Narcotics Affairs . C-span. June 30, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
5. ^ UK House of Commons, Foreign Affairs Committee - Ninth Report, UK-Brazil Relations . UK House of Commons. October 18, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2014.