Michael Reid (born 1952) is an English journalist, writer and commentator on Latin American and Iberian affairs.
Life and work
Born in Britain, Reid studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford. He is currently a senior editor at The Economist, writing the "Bello" column on Latin America while also covering Spain. After a period in Lima between 2014 and 2016 he now lives in Madrid. Between 1999 and December 2013, he was the newspaper's Americas Editor, overseeing coverage of Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada. He is the author of 12 Special Reports for The Economist, most recently on Spain (July 2018) and Colombia (2015).
He started as a freelance journalist based in Lima in 1982, covering the Andean countries for The Guardian and the BBC, among other media outlets. He began writing for The Economist in 1990, as Mexico and Central America Correspondent, and in 1994 changed to cover consumer industries. Between 1996 and 1999 he was the paper's São Paulo Bureau Chief.[1] Between 2000 and 2004 he also wrote a weekly column for Valor Econômico of Brazil and until 2013 wrote a monthly column for Poder magazine of Mexico.
^"The Americas". The Economist. 27 April 2000. Retrieved 7 June 2014. Award: Michael Reid, our Sao Paulo correspondent from April 1996 to May 1999 and now our Americas editor, has been awarded Brazil's National Order of the Southern Cross for his writing on Brazil and the Mercosur region.