Alex Cuadros
Journalist and author
Alex Cuadros is a journalist and former Bloomberg reporter. He wrote Brazillionaires after covering Brazil's billionaires.
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About Alex Cuadros
Alex Cuadros began his journalism career as a freelancer in Bogotá in 2008. He then moved to São Paulo to report for Bloomberg, where he covered billionaires. That work became the basis for his first book, Brazillionaires, which was long-listed for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award in 2016. He has also written for publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Washington Post. He is also the author of When We Sold God's Eye, published in December 2024. Cuadros was born in New York City, grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and studied at Sarah Lawrence College. He now lives in San Francisco.