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| Edward Schumacher Matos |
| Chief Executive Officer, Editorial Director and Founder |
Edward Schumacher Matos, born in Colombia of Colombian and Panamanian parents, has more than 25 years of newspaper experience.
Before founding Meximerica Media, he was the founding editor and associate publisher of The Wall Street Journal Americas, a highly successful section of The Wall Street Journal in Spanish and Portuguese that is distributed daily inside leading newspapers throughout Latin America. He was also responsible for beginning and publishing similar sections in Spain and Portugal. Schumacher Matos joined the Journal in 1993 to design and launch the Spanish-language editions.
He began his career as a reporter at the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Massachusetts, and then moved to the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was part of a team that in 1979 won the Pulitzer Prize for public service. For nearly a decade afterwards, Schumacher Matos worked at The New York Times, first as the York City economic development reporter and later as bureau chief in Buenos Aires and in Madrid, respectively. He left the Times in 1988 to write a book related to Vietnam. In 1991, he returned to New York as director of the Spanish Institute, a private cultural and public affairs institute dedicated to U.S. and Spanish relations.
Schumacher Matos was the editor and a contributor to the book, The New U.S. Presidency, published by the University of Alcala Press in 1989. He contributed the chapter, "Spain and Latin America," to the book, Europe and Latin America in the World Economy, published by Lynne Reiner in 1995. He has written extensively as well for The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs and other publications.
Schumacher Matos is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Americas Society in New York. He is on the board of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, Instituto de Empresa, Graduate Business School in Madrid, Maria Cabot Moors Awards at Columbia University, the International Finance Center at Pace University and Vanderbilt Magazine. He was formely on the board of the Inter American Press Association, the Scudder First Iberian Fund and the Royal Chamber Music Foundation in Madrid. As special advisor to Spain's Principe de Asturias Foundation, he negotiated and relocated the Moscow Virtuosi Orchestra from Russia to Spain.
Schumacher Matos received a bachelor's degree in literature and politics from Vanderbilt University and a master's degree in international economics and politics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. As a Fulbright Fellow in Japan, he did independent research on political relations in Northeast Asia in 1974, and he was a U.S.-Spain Bi-National Commission Fellow in Madrid in 1988. He also served in the U.S. Army and was awarded a Bronze Star for meritorious service in Vietnam.
Schumacher Matos came to the United States at the age of five and was naturalized as an American citizen at the age of 21. |
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