About
ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO is a versatile journalist with 20 years of experience as a staff writer at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. At the Times, he served as the bureau chief in Brazil over the Southern Cone, as a domestic correspondent based in Chicago and as a columnist. At the Journal he served as a foreign correspondent in Europe (Brussels), reported from the Middle East in 2003 and covered the global energy industry from Houston. Alexei has covered a range of challenging and emotional stories, from the rescue of the trapped Chilean miners, to earthquakes in Latin America, to military operations in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, while also developing original stories highlighting cultural and societal shifts in South America and Europe. He covered the fall of the energy-trading company Enron and documented its aftermath in federal trials. Alexei holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley. He resides in Los Angeles.