Alessandro Speciale has been named the Switzerland bureau chief for Bloomberg News.
He is based in Zurich but also overseeing our Geneva office.
Before he was Rome bureau chief and a reporter in Frankfurt covering the European Central Bank and the German economy. He also was a Vatican correspondent for 7 years, working for several Italian and American media including Time magazine and Religion News Service.
Speciale also worked in radio and as TV producer for live segments and documentaries for Al Jazeera English, NBC and the BBC.
