Graduate, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 1998, Financial News Reporter, Reuters; Team Leader, Paris and Bureau Chief, Brazil, Dow Jones & Co. Since 2006, with Bloomberg: covered financial markets and writing features about environment, bankers, energy companies and politics for Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Markets magazine and Bloomberg BusinessWeek; currently, covers economic news in Latin America. Recipient of Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award and Folio Award, for work on stories about deforestation in Amazon (2009).