Misha Glenny A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

Born in 1958. Misha Glenny holds an honorary doctorate from the American University in Bulgaria.

Misha Glenny is an award winning author and journalist who has been working in Central and Eastern Europe for 20 years. A former BBC Central Europe Correspondent with overall responsibility for coverage of the region, he has served as a visiting research professor at the London School of Economics and has written for various international newspapers. He has lectured at universities throughout Europe and the United States while the major diplomatic actors involved in the Balkans, including the Foreign Office and State Department at the highest level, continue to consult him regularly. Misha Glenny is a distinguished Fulbright scholar and a regular contributor to The New York Times, The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker.

Furthermore, Misha Glenny is the author of three best-selling books, The Rebirth of History: Eastern Europe in the Age of Democracy, The Fall of Yugoslavia and The Balkans: 18041999. He is also the Founding Director of SEE Change, an NGO which completed a two-year project developing cross-border cooperation between multi-ethnic municipalities in Kosovo, Serbia and Macedonia. During this project, Misha Glenny started researching the rise of the shadow economy since the fall of communism and the advent of globalization. His latest book McMafia: Crime without Frontiers has already become an international bestseller.