Jun 30 2010
Misha Glenny
Leading Authority on Global Organised Crime
Misha Glenny is an award winning author and journalist who has been working in Eastern and Central Europe for 20 years. A former BBC Central Europe Correspondent, Misha is also the author of four best-selling books and has spent several years in a courageous investigation of organized crime networks worldwide. He is 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.
While at the BBC, Misha Glenny won 1993’s Sony Gold Award for his ‘outstanding contribution to broadcasting’
Misha has written for all major British and European newspapers and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the New Yorker. Among his awards are the Sony Gold Award for Special Contribution to Broadcasting. 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.[/expand]
Misha Glenny is a popular keynote speakers at cyber security events around the world with his unique research into the relationship between cyber crime, cyber industrial espionage and cyber Having penetrated the convoluted, globalized and franchised modern underworld, often at considerable personal risk, he leaves no stone unturned (and no failed state unexamined) in his excavation of criminal globalization.[/expand]
Currently researching a new book on cybercrime, underworld investigator and former BBC World correspondent Misha Glenny combines a thoughtful approach with an elegant style, speaking clearly, frankly and in great depth, providing a deeper understanding of the real-life, international criminals.[/expand]
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