Michael Reid

Former Bello Columnist and Senior Editor for Latin America at The Economist

• One of the world’s leading analysts and commentators on Latin America
• Americas Editor at The Economist (1999-2013)
• The Economist’s Brazil correspondent and South America Bureau Chief (1996-1999)
• Author of “Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America”, “Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power”, and “Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country”
Michael Reid studied Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford University.
He was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot Prize in 2003 for outstanding reporting on Latin America by Columbia University and received Brazil’s Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul in 2000 for his writing on Brazil and the Mercosur region.
Fluent in both Spanish and Portuguese, he frequently speaks on Latin American affairs to business, academic, and public-policy audiences and has testified about the region to the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK House of Commons.