Ivan Briscoe
Senior Researcher
Peace, Security & Human Rights
Ivan Briscoe studied philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at the University of Oxford, before receiving a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship to continue his studies for a year at Harvard University. He has also completed a master’s degree in Development at Madrid’s Complutense University.
He started work in the field of public policy at the Demos Research Institute in London, before moving into journalism in Argentina, where he was employed for four years at the Buenos Aires Herald, while also writing frequently for the international press, including Time, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Houston Chronicle. After returning to Europe, he worked as a journalist at Agence France Presse (Paris) and The UNESCO Courrier (Paris), and from 2004 as the editor of the English edition of El País (Madrid).
He writes often on Latin America and developing world issues for Open Democracy and The New Internationalist, and has taken part in numerous radio programmes on the BBC, Radio Nederland and Radio France International.
Geo tags
European Union Latin America & Caribbean
Expert in
Crime Failed states Fragile state Governance Ideology State building Venezuela
Spoken languages
English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Written languages
English, French, Spanish
Expert publications
- 11/07/2008 - Latin American's new conflict zones
- 08/11/2007 - Reform versus capture: Guatemala after the elections
- 17/09/2007 - Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
- 20/07/2007 - Crime and drugs in fragile states
- 02/04/2007 - Has Blair changed his foreign policy?
- 09/11/2006 - The Corroded State in Nicaragua
