MISHA GLENNY

Former Central Europe Correspondent, Guardian and BBC; Journalist and Author of McMafia
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Misha Glenny is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and sought after keynote speaker. His best-selling book, McMafia, is about the globalization of organized crime and will be broadcast as a major dramas series by the BBC and AMC in January of next year. His book Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio, a biography of the man who ran the largest favela in Rio for five years as head of the cocaine cartel, is also in production as a Hollywood feature film. As a former BBC Central Europe correspondent who covered the revolutions in Eastern Europe, Glenny won the Sony Gold Award for outstanding contribution to broadcasting for his work during the Yugoslav wars. He is the author of the best-selling book The Fall of Yugoslavia and The Balkans: War, Nationalism and the Great Powers 1804-2012. Glenny recently served as a visiting professor at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute where he ran a course entitled Crime, Corruption and Economic Transition.