Jamil Chade

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Jamil Chade has been the UN and European correspondent for the Brazilian daily O Estado de S. Paulo in Geneva since 2000.

In 2013 and 2011, he was elected as the best Brazilian foreign correspondent, a prize given by the media organization Comuniquese.

In 2013, he was awarded for the most important sports story published in Brazil during the year. Also in 2013, he was awarded by O Estado de São Paulo for the best story of the year published by the newspaper.

As a correspondent, Chade contributes weekly to the Radio Estadao, a leading radio station in São Paulo. He also has his own blog (http://blogs.estadao.com.br/jamil-chade), with over 1 million visits and contributes regularly to news agencies such as BBC and Radio France International.

Since 2000, Chade has completed missions to over 60 countries in all continents of the world. These missions include trips with the secretary-general of the UN, Ban Ki Moon, to Liberia, Burkina Faso and other African countries. Chade has traveled with Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis as well as covering official presidential trips of three heads of state of Brazil around the world. (Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff).

Chade has covered two World Cups (2006 and 2010), as well as the Olympic Games in London in 2012.

In Geneva, Chade was elected from 2003 to 2005 the president of the Foreign Press Association in Switzerland.

He has published a number of academic articles and has written two books. « O Mundo Não é Plano » (2010) was a finalist at the Prêmio Jabuti, the main book prize in Brazil. In Switzerland, the book has won the Nicolas Bouvier Prize. In 2011, Chade published “Rousseff”, translated into Bulgarian, Polish and Korean.

In march 2014, Chade is publishing a book on the inside stories about the ten years of preparations of Brazil to host the World Cup.