Reuters names Latin American business editor

Kieran Murray, news editor for Latin America and the Caribbean at Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Friday morning:

I’m happy to announce that Christian Plumb has been appointed Latin America Business Editor, based in New York. He will help lead the company news file from across Latin America, working with correspondents, bureau chiefs, me and other editors in New York.

Christian has spent much of his career covering company news and he is also a Brazil expert. He deputized as Brazil bureau chief over the summer, a stint that took him back to Sao Paulo, where he was a Bloomberg correspondent in the late 1990s covering stories from the privatization of Telebras to the 1998 currency devaluation.

From there, Christian went to Milan, where he joined Reuters as a banking reporter. He then moved back to his native New York, starting out as aerospace team leader and then as EIC for Finance and M&A, leading the team through the 2008 Wall Street crisis. Christian then ventured to Paris, where he was chief equities correspondent, overseeing French company news and reporting on M&A and banking, including the travails of Societe General and Credit Agricole. That was followed by a stint as acting companies EIC in New York, where he also oversaw media and telecoms, and then a year on the Americas desk where he was trunk writer or editor on some of the biggest stories in the region.

His new role is an EIC position and he will have one or more journalists reporting to him.

Christian is a big fan of Brazil’s feijoada and caipirinhas and is looking forward to broadening his Latin American culinary horizons.