Alan Gersten (New York)

Alan Gersten covers Latin America for PFI.

He has worked for PFI for four years, reporting on project finance deals throughout the region, covering Mexico to Chile as well as the Caribbean, keeping track of trends sweeping through the region, such as a movement toward public-private-partnerships or decisions by Brazil to try to fund its massive projects internally.

Based in New York, he has travelled to Panama, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Brazil and Colombia to keep in contact with bankers, developers and government officials who drive the project finance market, as well as attending numerous conferences in the city and speaking with ratings officials and lawyers.

Before working at PFI, Alan was a freelance journalist for eight years, working frequently for the magazine. Prior to that, he worked for several large, regional newspapers and was business editor for two publications, the Rocky Mountain News in Denver and the Omaha World-Herald in Nebraska. Besides that, he has worked for Reuters and United Press International, covering business news.

Alan has won two national writing awards and a fellowship to Columbia University in New York, where he studied economics for an academic year.

Contact Info

• Tel: +1 (646) 822 3107
• E-mail: alan.gersten@thomsonreuters.com