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Michael V. E. " Misha" Glenny England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 (born 25 April 1958) is an English journalist and broadcaster, specialising in southeast Europe, global organised crime, and cybersecurity. He has been Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) in Vienna, Austria since 2022.
His parents moved from London to Oxford, where he was educated at Magdalen College School. He studied Drama and German at the University of Bristol before attending Prague's Charles University. He is multilingual, speaking English, German, Serbo-Croat, Czech and Portuguese.
Glenny's later books continue an interest in international crime. DarkMarket (2011) concerns cybercrime and the activities of hackers involved in phishing and other activities. Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio (2015) about the leading Brazilian drug trafficker Antônio Francisco Bonfim Lopes (known as "Nem") in Rocinha ("Little farm"), a favela (slum).
From January 2012, Glenny was visiting professor at Columbia University's Harriman Institute, Speaker bio: Misha Glenny , Govcert.nl; retrieved 14 April 2015. teaching a course on "crime in transition". In an interview in October 2011, he also spoke about his book, DarkMarket; assessing cybercriminals with Simon Baron-Cohen at Cambridge; the Stuxnet cyberattack which resulted in "gloves off" attention from governments; and other more recent cyberattacks. "Misha Glenny on his book 'DarkMarket:..." (20 m.), Charlie Rose interview, 26 October 2011. Video available; no transcript; details from viewing; retrieved 14 April 2015.
Glenny was an executive producer of the BBC One eight-part drama series, McMafia, inspired by his non-fiction book of the same name (2008).
Glenny is a producer and the writer of the BBC Radio 4 series, How to Invent a Country, How to Invent a Country, BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 28 March 2021. also made available as a podcast. An audio book of the same name was published by Penguin Random House in January 2021, consisting of the series' first 28 episodes broadcast October 2011–March 2019. How To Invent A Country, Penguin Random House UK Audio, London, 7 January 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
In 2019, Glenny presented a podcast on the life of Vladimir Putin titled Putin: Prisoner of Power.
In 2022, Glenny presented a five-part series, The Scramble for Rare Earths, on BBC Radio 4. In the programmes he says, “In this series I’m finding out why the battle for a small group of metals and critical raw materials is central to rising geopolitical tensions around the world.” This link leads to the first episode in the series, and links to the subsequent episodes can be followed from there. Depending on one's computer settings, one episode may automatically run on to the next. Note that the BBC sometimes allows a programme to be listened to only once by a given IP address, and that subsequent attempts to listen to it again may be "autoblocked".
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