Biography
Michael Reid is an author, journalist and speaker, specializing in Latin American, Iberian and international affairs. In 2023 he was appointed as a visiting professor in practice at the School of Public Policy of the London School of Economics. He is a writer-at-large for The Economist and a columnist for Letras Libres magazine.
From 1994 until 2023 he was a staff journalist for The Economist. From 2014 to 2022 he wrote the ‘Bello’ column on Latin America and was a senior editor. In addition, from 2016 to 2021 he was The Economist’s Spain correspondent; from 1999 to 2013 he was the magazine’s Americas editor; he was previously its correspondent in Brazil (1996-99); consumer industries correspondent (1994-95) and correspondent in Mexico and Central America (1990-93). He spent most of the 1980s based in Lima covering the Andean region for The Guardian and the BBC.
