Biography

Training

Degree of Doctor of Economics and Social Sciences, mention sociology
16.4.1989
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Geneva

Diploma of Graduate Research Development
15.5.1986
Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED), University of Geneva

Diploma of Journalism
10.8.1984
Faculty of Law and Economics and Social Sciences, University of Fribourg

Diploma
17.9.1982
Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED), University of Geneva

Certificate
1.10.1981
Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED), University of Geneva

Bachelor
1966-1968
Escuela Nacional B. Juarez, Juarez, Argentina

Accountant
1962-1966
Colegio Nacional E. Echeverria, Azul, Argentina

Professional experience

Assistant sociology
1982-1988
As Volunteer, alternate part-time and then full charge, University of Geneva

Press journalist at the UN in Geneva since 1987 for the following newspapers in Latin America and Switzerland: Página 12, Buenos Aires, Brecha, Montevideo, Que hacer, Lima, El Porteño, Argentina; V. O. Réalités, Geneva, El Periódico de Catalunya, Spain, La Nación , Chile, Proceso, Mexico.

Accreditation as a journalist
1993-2009
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAE)

Registration in the Register of professional journalist in Switzerland (RP)
1989-2009
Impressum, a former Swiss Federation of Journalist (FSJ)

Press Cards
1996-2009
Association of Correspondents of the United Nations (ACANU)
Foreign Press Association in Switzerland and Liechtenstein (APES)

Member of the drafting Pool of the website Humanrights.
2006-january 2009
Updates on the Council of Human Rights, United Nations, in English and French

Member of the non-governmental organization New Human Rights (NDH)
2003-2009
Accredited to the United Nations since 1995 - Ndh.org.ar.

Newspapers, magazines, news agencies, radio and television

Articles and reports
1993-2009
El Periódico de Catalunya, Barcelona ; Tiempo, Madrid ; Tribune de Genève, Genève ; Clarín, Argentine ; Proceso, Méxique ; Perfil, Buenos Aires ; La Nación , Chile ; El Tiempo, Colombie ; CNN in Spanish, USA ; AFP, Geneva ; Veintitres, Buenos Aires ; Le Courrier, Geneva ; Radio France Internationale, Paris ; Infosud and Le Temps, Switzerland

Journalistic Books
Investigations and trials
1986-2009

In Argentina: La pista suiza (1986), Montoneros, final de cuentas (1988), La injusticia federal (2005), La fuga del Brujo – Historia criminal de José López Rega (2005), Manuscrito de un desaparecido en la ESMA – El libro de Jorge Caffatti (2006), El crimen de Graiver (1990, reissued in 2007 under the title David Graiver – El banquero de los Montoneros), El pacto Menem-Kirchner (2009).
In Spain: Después de la tormenta, las claves de la posguerra (1991, collective work after the first Gulf War); Roldán-Paesa, la conexión suiza (1997, corruption in Spain and Switzerland); after word to the Spanish edition on Nazi Gold (1997) ( L'or nazi), a book by Jean Ziegler, contribution on networks of laundering dirty money of the Nazi dictatorship in Spain, Portugal and Argentina ; Borges: la posesión póstuma (2000, the last days of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges in Geneva, translated into French by Éditions Timéli of Geneva in 2006) ; Mujeres de dictadores (2002, portraits of women of Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Alberto Fujimori, Ferdinand Marcos, Jorge Videla and Slobodan Milosevic), the latter two also being distributed in Latin America.
Co-author, with Norberto Bermúdez El testigo secreto (Argentina-Spain, 1999, on the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón) and La prueba (2001, corruption in Argentina); La delgada línea blanca (2000) with Rodrigo de Castro.

Literary Awards

Rodolfo Walsh price for literature non-fiction
2001
In the international contest Semana Negra of Gijón, Spain, with Rodrigo de Castro, for the book La delgada línea blanca, investigation into Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile and links with Argentina

Price Nicolas Bouvier Media
2007
In the contest's 10th anniversary of the Swiss Club de la Presse in Geneva with Carole Vann. For investigative journalism on confidential reports to the United Nations of violations of human rights in Iran and Uzbekistan, French and English, in the website Tribune of Human Rights in the newspapers Le Temps and Le Courrier.