Miren Gutiérrez

Since January 2011, I am Greenpeace Spain's Executive Director. From 1990 until 1996, I was based in Hong Kong as an EFE correspondent, covering the South East Asia, Korea and Pacific region, in charge of a group of contributors. I then spent five years in Panama in charge of the business section of La Prensa, the Panamanian newspaper of record. I coordinated or edited investigative business stories, some of them with environmental links. Several of these stories were award-winners. A year of free-lancing in New York followed, writing for different media, such as El País, The Nation, UPI, Gatopardo and Offshore Alert. I covered the Sep. 11 attacks for El País. I joined IPS --a news agency dedicated to the envirronment, human rights and global issues-- as Editor in chief in January 2003. I published my first novel in 2007.