John Prideaux

John Prideaux won the Nico Colchester Prize in 2003. He spent three months reporting from Brussels for the FT, where learned from a team of experienced journalists and filed his first stories.

Since 2004 he has worked for The Economist. He started as political correspondent, covering Westminster politics. Since then he has spent time in India writing about politics and in London writing about financial markets. He is currently The Economist’s Brazil correspondent. John has appeared as a pundit on radio shows in Britain and America, and as a talking head on BBC TV, Sky News, ITV, Fox News and CNBC.

He has an undergraduate degree from Cambridge University and an MA from the Sorbonne, where he was an Entente Cordiale scholar.