Alex Cuadros

Alex Cuadros is a reporter and author of *Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in a Latin American Country*, shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year award. He has written for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post, among others, with reporting from Brazil, Colombia, Iraq, Mexico, and Venezuela. Born in New York City, he grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, despite his Bolivian surname. After studying Latin American literature at Sarah Lawrence College, he moved to Bogotá as a freelance journalist. From 2010 to 2016, based in São Paulo, he covered the ultra-rich, Brazilian politics, the Zika epidemic, and the Rio Olympics.