About me

I was born on January 3rd, 1954 in Romford, Essex, England. My father, Edwin, was an industrial chemist and he was English. My mother, Joan, was born in Argentina of Scottish background. I have two brothers, Robert and Paul and a sister, Gillian.
Although I am divorced, I am the father of Martin, age 19. 

As a child I lived and studied both in Britain and Argentina and I graduated from the British Institute of Linguists in London with a degree in Modern Languages in 1981. In 1987 I was awarded a Masters Degree in Hispanic Studies at the University of London. 

Most of my life I worked as a journalist and since 1982 I carried out extensive research work into the Falklands - Malvinas conflict for research institutions such as the South Atlantic Council of London, the Di Tella Institute in Buenos Aires, the United Nations Program for Development and the Bank of the Province de Buenos Aires Foundation with a view of presenting a PhD thesis on the subject.

Since 1993 I have been a National Academician at the National Academy of Tango of Argentina where I currently hold the position of Second Vice President.

Between 1978 and 1997 I worked at the English-language newspaper of Argentina, The Buenos Aires Herald,  performing all kinds of work, ranging from proof reader, London correspondent, news editor, editorialist and co-editor of the newspaper.

I have also worked as a press adviser and consultant on communication for diverse national and international companies as well as a journalist for numerous publications and news agencies, including Mercopress and DYN, Gente, Noticias and La Primera magazines, for whom I wrote numerous articles and produced radio and television programs, especially for Channel 13, Todo Noticias, America TV in Argentina as well as for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 in Britain.

For over thirty years I worked  as a journalist in the Southern Cone of South America - especially on the Falklands Malvinas conflict - but also in Patagonia and Antarctica having travelled within the Antarctic region dozens of times, travelling around the world and working in all seven continents.

Although much of my work covered political, social and military events I also worked on travel related issues, especially the aviation and maritime industries.

Over the years I won several travel industry awards, including the Marriott Hotel Golden Circle Global Tourism Award (1990 and 1997) as well as the British Airways Merit Award.

As a journalist I won several other awards including:

1988: State of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA, Honorary Citizenship of the State of Texas, USA.

1993: USS Constellation – CV 64, Honorary Crew Member.

1994: DuPont Argentina Inc, Buenos Aires, Argentina, DuPont Award for Environmental Journalism.

2002: International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, New York, USA, Aristides de Souza

In 2010 I was awarded the Alastair Whewell Memorial Prize to the Best Colleague by my fellow PDs and TLs of Grand Circle Travel Argentina Regional Office. 

In 1998 I was the producer of the only TV show in the history of Argentine television to be broadcast live from the archipelago: Hora Clave from the Falklands with the Argentine political analyst Mariano Grondona.

Nowadays, I distribute my time between tourism and journalism, continuing my investigation into the Falklands Malvinas conflict, as well as making contributions to several press organisations. I also actively collaborate with the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation and the National Academy of Tango.