Mario Calvo-Platero (born April 26, 1954) is an Italian journalist who has been the US editor of the prestigious

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newspaper ''

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'' for over 30 years up to 2017. He has also worked as a

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for

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Biography

He was born and lived in

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until 1967. He studied economics at the

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and later International Affairs at

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. He has worked at the

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, dealing with research on transnational banks, and at a bank in

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. Having moved to the

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in 1978, he started writing for

that same year. It was in 1979 that he finally became a correspondent for

. He eventually moved on to found the American editorial of Il Sole 24 Ore as well as creating Economic & Management Consultants Inc. (EMC Inc.) in 1982, which provides journalistic services in real time. He also created ''Review Italy'', a

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written in English on Italian economics and business. He interviewed Presidents

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and

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at the

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during the 1991

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, he followed the

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. He is a member of various associations including the

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(IISS) in

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, the New York Financial Writers Association and he is the president of the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation USA. On March 1, 2017, the working relationship with

was terminated by mutual agreement, maintaining however a collaboration as editorialist and

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, until December 29, 2017, of America 24 on Radio 24. On February 28, 2018, he definitively terminated his almost thirty-year collaboration with

and starting from the following day he became a columnist for La Stampa newspaper. Mario Platero has been the host of a radio show, America 24 (2010–2017), on the air from Monday to Friday on Radio 24 and was the editor-in-chief of a news website published in New York, www.america24.com. He currently lives in New York with his wife, Ariadne Grace Beaumont, and three children.

Works

* ''Rapporto Tower. Iran, ostaggi, armi, Contras, Achille Lauro, fondi neri… L'inchiesta che sconvolge l'America di Reagan'', with Giuseppe Josca, prefaction by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Milan, Edizioni del Sole 24 Ore, 1987. * ''Il Modello Americano. Egemonia e consenso nell'era della globalizzazione'', with Mauro Calamandrei, Milan, Garzanti, 1997. .

Sources

* https://web.archive.org/web/20170607200119/http://www.mediamente.rai.it/HOME/bibliote/biografi/c/calvopla.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Calvo-Platero, Mario 1954 births Living people Italian journalists Italian male journalists Journalists from New York City