BiografÃa / Speaker Info
Andrés Oppenheimer is a journalist, writer and lecturer. He began his studies at the University of Buenos Aires and completed them at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, New York.
He is a columnist for The Miami Herald, a political analyst for CNN en español and host of the television program "Oppenheimer Presenta". His weekly column, El Informe Oppenheimer, is published regularly in more than 45 newspapers around the world. He has been The Miami Herald's chief correspondent in Mexico and in charge of the newspaper's coverage in Colombia, Panama and several other countries in the region. He has published several books, but "Cuentos Chinos: el engaño de Washington, la mentira populista y la esperanza de América Latina" is at the top of best-seller lists in Mexico, Argentina and several Latin American countries.
Among the many awards he received during his career, he was co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize (1987) along with the team of The Miami Herald and was distinguished with two of the most prestigious awards in Spanish-language journalism: the Ortega y Gasset Award from the newspaper El PaÃs of Spain (1993) and the King of Spain Award granted by the EFE news agency and the King of Spain (2001).
