Andrés Oppenheimer
Journalist, columnist and author
Andrés Oppenheimer is a journalist and television host who has written books on international affairs, technology and education. He shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1987.
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Argentinian Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
About Andrés Oppenheimer
Born in Buenos Aires, Andrés Oppenheimer relocated to the US in 1976 with a World Press Institute scholarship and studied at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1978 he completed a journalism master's at Columbia University in New York. At The Miami Herald he has served as a columnist, as Latin America editor and as bureau chief in Mexico, Colombia and Central America. He also hosts the show Oppenheimer Presenta on CNN en Español. As part of a Miami Herald team that exposed the Iran-Contra scandal, he shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1987. His book The Robots Are Coming! (2018) looks at the future of work in an age of robots and smart computers. His books have been published in six languages, among them Korean and Japanese.