Mark Engler

Mark Engler is a freelance journalist based in Philadelphia and a 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 is a monthly columnist for the Oxford, UK-based New Internationalist magazine. He serves on the editorial board of Dissent and writes a weekly post for the magazine’s “Arguing the World” blog. His articles on the global economy, social movements, Latin American affairs, militarism, domestic politics, and the environment appear in publications including The Progressive, The Nation, Newsday, Audubon, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Mother Jones, The Christian Science Monitor, The Ecologist, In These Times, Grist Magazine, and TomDispatch. His work has also been featured in anthologies including Democracy in Print: The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009.

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 Authors Guild.

Originally from Des Moines, Iowa, Mark graduated summa cum laude 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, former president of Costa Rica and the 1987 Nobel Peace Laureate. Mark has also lived in or reported from Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Brazil, and other parts of Latin America.

Mark is an experienced public speaker and has been a guest on BBC World News, National Public Radio, Air America, and dozens of Pacifica, commercial talk radio, and independent radio stations, addressing issues ranging from economic crises, “free trade,” and debt relief to U.S. military actions, popular protests, and elections throughout the Americas. He has served as a commentator for the Institute for Public Accuracy and for the Mainstream Media Project.

After residing in New York City for nearly a decade, Mark relocated to Philadelphia in 2010.

Mark can be reached by e-mail here.

A higher-resolution photo of Mark is available here.