Brian Winter is editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly magazine and the vice president for policy at Americas Society/Council of the Americas. A best-selling author and columnist, Brian is a leading expert on Latin America and a frequent speaker for international media and events.
Recognized as a “Washington and Wall Street insider”, sharing with clients in Latin America how their own countries (whether it’s Peru, Argentina or Colombia) are perceived in the US, what investors and policymakers are thinking, and what the general outlook is. At the Council, he spends all of his time at that intersection of Latin America and the US. There aren’t many people who do that.
Based in New York City since 2015, Brian has led the relaunch of Americas Quarterly, more than doubling its online readership and expanding its coverage of politics, business and culture in the Western Hemisphere. Previously, while covering Latin America for a decade as a correspondent for Reuters, he was based in São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Mexico City. Brian is the author or co-author of four books about Latin America including Why Soccer Matters, a New York Times bestseller he wrote with Brazilian soccer legend Pelé; The Accidental President of Brazil, co-authored with President Fernando Henrique Cardoso; and Long After Midnight, a memoir about his time in Argentina.
Brian has been a featured speaker at the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Economic Forum, the Chautauqua Institution and other events focused on international relations and investment trends. Proficient in Spanish and Portuguese, he has appeared on NPR, BBC, CNBC, CNN, CNN en Español and Univision, among others. He has been quoted as a policy analyst in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Folha de S.Paulo, O Globo and numerous other publications around the Americas. He can be found on Twitter at @BrazilBrian.
