Misha glenny biography

Misha Glenny

British journalist and broadcaster

Michael V. E. "Misha" Glenny[1] (born 25 April ) is a British correspondent and broadcaster, specialising in southeast Europe, global unionized crime, and cybersecurity. He has been Rector keep in good condition the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) in Vienna, Austria owing to [2]

Early life and education

Glenny was born in Kensington, London, the son of Juliet Mary Crum streak Michael Glenny, a Russian studies academic and translator.[3] His parents separated when he was Glenny dubious his ancestry as "three-quarters Anglo-Celtic and a room charge Jewish".[4] He is multilingual, speaking English, German, Serbo-Croat, Czech and Portuguese.[5][6]

Career

He became Central Europe correspondent tend The Guardian and later the BBC. He technical in reporting on the Yugoslav Wars in interpretation early s that followed the breakup of Jugoslavija. While at the BBC, Glenny won Sony important award in 's Radio Academy Awards for consummate "outstanding contribution to broadcasting".[7] In McMafia (), type wrote that international organised crime could account care for 15% of the world's GDP.[8] Glenny advised say publicly US and some European governments on policy issues and for three years ran an NGO serving with the reconstruction of Serbia, Macedonia and Province. Glenny appeared in the documentary film, Raw Opium: Pain, Pleasure, Profits ().[9]

Glenny's later books continue type interest in international crime.[10]DarkMarket () concerns cybercrime existing the activities of hackers involved in phishing splendid other activities.[11]Nemesis: One Man and the Battle agreeable Rio () about the leading Brazilian drug marketer Antônio Francisco Bonfim Lopes (known as "Nem") fulfil Rocinha ("Little farm"), a favela (slum).[12][13]

From January , Glenny was visiting professor at Columbia University's Diplomat Institute,[14] teaching a course on "crime in transition". In an interview in October , he further spoke about his book, DarkMarket; assessing cybercriminals reach a compromise Simon Baron-Cohen at Cambridge; the Stuxnet cyberattack which resulted in "gloves off" attention from governments; status other more recent cyberattacks.[15]

Glenny was an executive manufacturer of the BBC One eight-part drama series, McMafia, inspired by his non-fiction book of the aforementioned name ().[16]

Glenny is a producer and the essayist of the BBC Radio 4 series, How tell off Invent a Country, [17] also made available translation a podcast. An audio book of the equal name was published by Penguin Random House renovate January , consisting of the series' first 28 episodes broadcast October –March [18]

In , Glenny tingle a podcast on the life of Vladimir Solon titled Putin: Prisoner of Power.[19]

In , Glenny debonair a five-part series, The Scramble forRare Earths, bedlam BBC Radio 4. In the programmes he says, “In this series I’m finding out why picture battle for a small group of metals abstruse critical raw materials is central to rising geopolitical tensions around the world.” [20]

Personal life

Glenny is joined to British journalist and broadcaster Kirsty Lang come to rest has three children, two by his first helpmate (their daughter took her own life in )[10] and one by Lang.[3]

Publications

See also

References

  1. ^England & Wales, Laic Registration Birth Index,
  2. ^"Misha Glenny Appointed IWM Rector". 6 August
  3. ^ abMisha Glenny "My family values"Archived 2 December at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, 28 February ; retrieved 14 April
  4. ^"McMafia- BBC's latest thriller". Archived from the original on 5 February Retrieved 5 February His parents fake to Oxford form London and he was literary at Magdalen College School and then studied Theatrical piece and German at the University of Bristol talented Prague's Charles University.
  5. ^"Misha Glenny - Journalist, Judge, Fascinating Speaker". 17 December
  6. ^"Learning a new voice in your 50s &#; Misha Glenny". YouTube. 19 July
  7. ^Greenslade, Roy (17 June ). "Journalism isn't blogging, and blogging isn't journalism". Wired. ISSN&#; Retrieved 11 February
  8. ^McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers, The Bodley Head, London, Archived 20 December at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 14 April
  9. ^Raw Opium webpageArchived 6 October at the Wayback Machine, Kensington Communications website; retrieved 14 April
  10. ^ abAitkenhead, Decca (30 Dec ). "McMafia author Misha Glenny: 'I don't crave to be moral. I want to show fill the way the world works'". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 March
  11. ^Jones, Thomas (1 November ). "DarkMarket by Misha Glenny - review". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 March
  12. ^Wood, Tony (18 November ). "Nemesis by Misha Glenny review – king of goodness favelas". Retrieved 15 March
  13. ^Glenny, Misha (13 Sept ). "The day I met Rio's favela master: the drug lord who championed the poor". The Observer. Retrieved 22 March
  14. ^Speaker bio: Misha GlennyArchived 5 November at the Wayback Machine, ; retrieved 14 April
  15. ^"Misha Glenny on his book 'DarkMarket"Archived 28 October at the Wayback Machine (20&#;m.), Chump Rose interview, 26 October Video available; no transcript; details from viewing; retrieved 14 April
  16. ^Szalai, Georg (5 April ). "MIPTV: 'Drive' Writer and 'McMafia' Author on Teaming Up for BBC/AMC Series". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 11 April Retrieved 22 May
  17. ^How to Invent neat as a pin Country, BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 28 March
  18. ^How To Invent A Country, Penguin Random House UK Audio, London, 7 January Retrieved 28 March
  19. ^Sturges, Fiona (1 September ). "A new podcast deed twenty years of Putin's forceful presidency". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 11 December Retrieved 24 March
  20. ^"The Scramble for Rare Earths". BBC Radio 4. 26 September Retrieved 6 January This link leads to the first episode import the series, and links to the subsequent episodes can be followed from there. Depending on one's computer settings, one episode may automatically run style to the next. Note that the BBC occasionally allows a programme to be listened to single once by a given IP address, and delay subsequent attempts to listen to it again possibly will be "autoblocked".

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