About
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Eric Reguly is the European bureau chief for The Globe and Mail and is based in Rome.
Since 2007, when he moved to Europe, he has primarily covered economic, financial and environmental stories, ranging from the euro zone crisis and the bank bailouts to the rise and fall of Russia's oligarchs and several UN climate summits. He also covered the Arab Spring in Tunisia, the Athens riots during the financial crisis, the London and Sochi Olympics, the 2013 papal conclave, several national elections, the economic and political turmoil in Lebanon and the threats to the Egyptian Nile.
In Europe, he is also a regular guest on Canadian and American radio and TV programs, including CBC, CTV and San Francisco’s KALW, and makes speeches about business issues. In recent years, he has been a judge for the Prix Italia, an international TV, radio and web competition. He is a contributor to Corporate Knights, a clean capitalism magazine Before his European assignment, Eric wrote the paper's main business column from Toronto and still writes a weekly column. He also co-hosted a daily business TV program on BNN, and wrote a regular column for Time Canada.
Eric has won several awards for his work, including, in 2007, the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism. He was co-winner in 2010 of a National Newspaper Award and has twice been an NNA runner-up in the columnist category. In 2010, he won gold in the National Magazine Awards and took silver in 2015. He won gold in Canada for commentary from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in 2015. In 2020, he won another gold for commentary from SABEW and took silver in the long feature category.
He has contributed to several books, including Orange Alert, a remembrance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and Beautiful Destruction, an essay and photo book on the Alberta oil sands. His book Ghosts of War: Chasing my father’s legend through Vietnam, is to be published by Sutherland House Books in March, 2022.
Eric was born in Vancouver, grew up in Toronto, Washington and Rome and has Canadian and Italian citizenship.