Mark Engler is a freelance journalist based in New York City and senior analyst with Foreign Policy In Focus, a network of foreign policy experts. He is author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books), selected by the Drum Major Institute as one of the "most interesting and informative progressive books" of 2008. An archive of his work is available at DemocracyUprising.com.

Mark's articles on the global economy, social movements, Latin American affairs, militarism, domestic politics, and the environment appear in publications including Dissent, Newsday, The Nation, the San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, The Progressive, The Christian Science Monitor, The Ecologist, In These Times, Grist Magazine, and TomDispatch.

Mark's articles have been translated into 15 languages, are distributed in Spanish by Miami's Progreso Semanal, and are regularly published abroad. He is a member of the Author's Guild.

An activist originally from Des Moines, Iowa, Mark graduated from Harvard University in 1998, where he studied ethics in the modern West, with a focus on human rights theory and liberation theology. He subsequently worked for the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, where he served as a speechwriter and assistant to Dr. Oscar Arias, President of Costa Rica from 1986-1990 and the 1987 Nobel Peace Laureate. Mark has also lived in Guatemala and El Salvador, and he has reported from throughout Latin America.

Mark is an experienced public speaker and has been a guest on BBC World News, National Public Radio, and dozens of Pacifica, commercial talk radio, and independent radio stations, addressing issues ranging from CAFTA, debt relief, and the war in Iraq to elections throughout the Americas. Mark serves as a commentator for both the Institute for Public Accuracy and for the Mainstream Media Project.

Since moving to New York in 2000, Mark has worked as a journalist while also collaborating with several political initiatives, including Cultures of Resistance.

Mark can be reached by e-mail here.

A higher-resolution photo of Mark is available here.