Resume
 
Bill Hinchberger
Av. Morumbi 7713, Casa 7
Brooklin* 04703 São Paulo, SP * Brazil
telephone: (55-11) 5507-4150
telephone & fax: (55-11) 5506-0371
cellular: (55-11) 9976-6623

e-mail: hinchber@amcham.com.br
Employment and professional activities
 
Editor/publisher, BrazilMax
Independent journalist, writer and critic. Credits include:
Bill and Jorge Amado
Helping Jorge Amado dream.

Advertising Age, ARTnews, CNN.com, Columbia Journalism Review,EcoAméricas, Institutional Investor, Miami Herald, Mother Jones, MSNBC.com, San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Nation, The Industry Standard, thestreet.com, Upside, UTNE Reader, Variety and World Link - Book credits. Contributor, “The Brazil Reader,” (Duke University, 1999); contributor, chapter on São Paulo, “Bradman’s South America:

The Essential Guide to Business Travel,” (Monomax, 1999); contributor,“Brazil Investment Guide,” (American Chamber of Commerce, São Paulo, 1997); contributor, "Investing and Selling in Latin America" (Hemisphere Business Books, 1995); contributor, "The Green Globe Yearbook 1993" (Oxford University Press, 1993).

Another face in the art world crowd.

Contract writing. Client list includes the World Economic Forum and Chivas Regal.

Consultant. Projects completed for companies in diverse sectors, including automotive, banking, Internet, mining and publishing. Client list includes BHP, Business International Australia, Economist Intelligence Unit and The Futures Group.

President, Association of Foreign Correspondents (São Paulo, 1995-1999)

Frequent speaking engagements with student and professional groups; interviewed regularly by the Latin American and international press.

Correspondent-stringer, Business Week (1993-95)
Bill and Jorge Amado

Lighting up lunch at Itaipu with Eletrobrás President Firmino Ferreira Sampaio Neto

Correspondent-stringer, The Financial Times (1992-93)
Correspondent-stringer, Business International/Economist Intelligence Unit, São Paulo, Brazil (1991-92)
Associate editor, Third World Guide 1991-92 (biannual reference book), Montevideo, Uruguay (1990)
Editor, Third World magazine, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1988-90); associate editor (1986-88)
Extensive reporting in Central America (1982-84)
Editor, Report magazine, Student Press Law Center, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation, Washington, D.C. (1980)
Reporter, KALX Radio News, Berkeley, California (1979)
Sportswriter, News-Pilot, San Pedro, California (1975-79)
 

 

Education
 
Face to face with Antonio Carlos Magalhães.

University of California, Berkeley. M.A., Latin American Studies (1992). Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship. GPA: 3.8.

University of California, Berkeley. B.A. with honors, Political Science (1980). Phi Beta Kappa; GPA: 3.8.

El Camino Community College, Torrance, California, A.A., Economics (1977). Economics Department Award. GPA: 3.9.

 

Languages:
English (native), Portuguese and Spanish.
Bill and Jorge Amado
Caught on the cover of Nicaragua's La Prensa with Sandinista Comandante Jaime Wheelock
 

Professional Organizations: American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), National Writers Union (NWU), Overseas Press Club of America (OPC), São Paulo Association of Foreign Correspondents (ACE), Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ).

 

How'd they let this guy on the field?

 

 

Professional Fellowships: National Press Foundation fellow to the Graduate School of Banking, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994; grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism for a 1991 report on employment related sterilization of Brazilian women.