Daniel Bases is a veteran award winning print and broadcast Reuters correspondent who has covered financial, foreign policy and general news for 20 years. In 2012 he was the Reuters fencing correspondent at the London Olympic Games, leveraging his 30+ years of involvement in the sport. Daniel has worked for Reuters for the past 16 years on assignments in Latin America, Asia, Europe, the United States and the United Nations. He has interviewed presidents, prime ministers, finance and economy ministers from G7 and emerging market nations for both print and television. He has appeared on Reuters Television, MSNBC, and TimesNow (India) and broadcasted a daily U.S. stock market report for London-based radio station News Direct. He conducts journalism training courses covering business, economics and finance on behalf of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. In addition, he moderates high level panel discussions at the New York Japan Society and at Reuters. Prior to joining Reuters he was a producer at CNN Business News in New York. He is a former President of the New York Financial Writers’ Association and was named a Knight-Bagehot Fellow for Business and Economic Journalism in 1999. He graduated from Columbia University with a degree in history, studied at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and earned a masters degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.