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Misha Glenny is an award-winning journalist who made a name for himself as the BBC’s Central Europe Correspondent covering the 1989 revolutions and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He has a Sony Gold Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting and is also a winner of BT’s Information Security Journalist of The Year.

He is regularly consulted by governments and law enforcement agencies in Europe and the Americas on the Balkans and Eastern Europe, trans-national organised crime and cyber security. He is also a regular contributor to major publications in Europe, North America and Japan.

His book McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime and Dark Market: How Hackers Became the New Mafia were shortlisted for several prizes, and McMafia has been adapted in a joint production between AMC (in the US) and the BBC into a major television series that has recently been commissioned for a second season. It also won best drama series at the International Emmys in November 2019.

His most recent book, Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio, is the biography of the former head of a major Brazilian cocaine cartel who Misha interviewed at length in prison. Nemesis is also in production as a Hollywood feature film.

Misha recently served as a visiting professor at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute where he ran a course entitled Crime, Corruption and Economic Transition. He was voted the best lecturer at SIPA for his work there.

Misha has also worked as a Professor at the London School of Economics and is taking tenure at the University of California throughout 2020.

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