Merval Pereira
Merval Pereira in 2010
BornOctober 24, 1949 (1949-10-24) (age 74)
Rio De Janeiro
NationalityBrazilian
OccupationJournalist
Known forO Globo

Merval Pereira is a Brazilian journalist, political columnist and commentator for O Globo, CBN News and Globo News cable television.[1]

Career

Pereira joined O Globo in 1968 as a cub reporter, and has served as its editor-in-chief. From 1983 to 1985, Pereira worked for Veja, a Brazilian newsweekly.[2]

He has served as Media Leader at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he has been a mediator for round tables on Brazil and Latin America. In 2008, he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Brazilian Studies at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University.[3][4] In November 2008, Pereira gave a talk at the ILAS on “Brazilian Perspectives on the U.S. Elections: What Is at Stake?”

He became a member of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy in 2010 and was elected a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in June 2011.[5]

Books

References

  1. ^ "Merval Pereira". Grupo Editorial Record. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
  2. ^ Pereira, Merval. "Batalha inglória". Oglobo. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
  3. ^ "Merval Pereira" (PDF). Academia.org. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
  4. ^ "About the Center for Brazilian Studies". Columbia Institute of Latin American Studies. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
  5. ^ "Jornalista Merval Pereira toma posse na Academia Brasileira de Letras". Correio. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
  6. ^ "Merval Pereira" (PDF). Academia.org. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
  7. ^ "O Lulismo no Poder". Livraria do Folha. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
  8. ^ Azevedo, Reinaldo. "Veja article". Veja. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
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