Alan Riding (born 8 December 1943, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a British author and journalist.
[1] After spending his first 11 years in Brazil, Riding went to England to attend Rossall School, Lancashire, and later Bristol University.
[4] As the Rio de Janeiro bureau chief, Riding covered the transitions from military regimes to democracies in Brazil and many neighboring countries as well as guerrilla wars and drug trafficking in Peru[5] and Colombia.
[6] In 1989, after a brief stint in Rome, he was named The New York Times's Paris bureau chief, which included coverage of the European Union and NATO.
Riding lives in Paris,[8] with his wife Marlise Simons who is a reporter for The New York Times.