Michael Werbowski is a freelance reporter who specializes in environmental issues. He graduated from the University of Leeds, UK and wrote his MA dissertation in post-communist studies on the topic of EU enlargement to the nations of "new" central Europe.

He did his BA studies at the faculty of Political Science and Law (University of Nantes, France) and later spent a year as an "etudiant libre" attending classes at the Institut d' Etudes Politiques de Paris. In 1992, he took summer courses in "American foreign policy" and "advanced journalism" at Harvard University. In 1993, he ran for parliament in the Canadian federal elections. He is a "Salzburg seminar" fellow from 1996 and was awarded a Wolfson college Cambridge media fellowship in 2004. From 1987 to 1993 he was correspondent in Paris of the "Canadian Jewish Outlook" magazine. From 1994 until 2000 he resided in Prague as a reporter for the local press. From 2000 until 2003 he worked in Mexico city as a correspondent for the Czech daily "Lidove Noviny" while collaborating with the Mexican media.

In 2005, he lectured in Prague's Anglo American college "on corporate ethics and media coverage." As a reporter he covered and commented on issues related to EU and NATO enlargement for the prominent Czech daily "Lidove Noviny" and the "Prague Post." He has written news and commentary for newspapers such "El Excelsior" and "Tiempos del Mundo" in Mexico City. For his environmental coverage of the Chalillo dam controversy in Belize he was awarded an honorable mention for best reporting in 2003 by the Mexican journalists' club.

Mr. Werbowski currently writes for several internet news Web sites among them Worldpress.org, OhmyNews International and UpsidedownWorld.org mainly on environmental topics in Latin America. His articles have appeared translated from English into Spanish and French in magazines and newspapers and Web sites world wide.

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