(United Kingdom, 1958) Misha Glenny is an Emmy award winning journalist, historian and broadcaster. He is currently the host of the BBC radio show, In Our Time, following four years as the rector of the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. His best-selling McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime (2009), a non-fiction survey of the globalisation of organised crime, became a major drama series pm BBC television. His most recent book, Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio (2015), is the biography of Antônio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, who ran Rio de Janeiro's biggest slum for over five years. He is a frequent commentator on geopolitics, technology, crime, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Glenny, who is fluent in several languages, made his name as the BBC's Central Europe correspondent covering the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe and the wars in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. He is also the author of a single-volume history of the modern Balkans.
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