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Michael V. E. "Misha" Glenny (born 25 April 1958) is a British journalist and broadcaster, specialising in southeast Europe, global organised crime, and cybersecurity. He has been Rector (Director) of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) in Vienna, Austria since 2022.
Misha Glenny is a former journalist and a best-selling author of McMafia, a book about the globalisation of organised crime. He is also a keynote speaker on cyber security and a TV drama series based on his book is currently airing.
Misha Glenny is a former BBC correspondent who covered the 1989 revolutions and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He is also a best-selling author of books on organised crime, cyber security and geopolitics, and a visiting professor at Columbia University.
Misha Glenny is an award-winning journalist, author and public intellectual. He assumed the role of IWM Rector in May 2022. He covered the 1989 revolutions and wars in the former Yugoslavia for The Guardian and was the BBC’s Central Europe Correspondent.
Journalist Misha Glenny spent several years in a courageous investigation of organized crime networks, which have grown to an estimated 15% of the global economy. From the Russian mafia to the giant drug cartels, his sources include not just intelligence and law enforcement officials but criminal insiders.
Books and Reviews. 'Misha Glenny doesn't just write books, he lives them ' - John Kampfner, the Observer. Nemesis. I lived in a slum in Rio to write this. I wanted to find the real story behind one of the city’s most notorious drug traffickers who agreed to talk to me at length in his prison cell.
Misha Glenny is a journalist and broadcaster whose books include The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers: 1804-2012, McMafia: A Journey through the Global Criminal Underworld, and DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia.
