Oliver Balch

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Oliver Balch is a British author and freelance writer who specializes in business and international affairs. He has written for The Guardian , the Daily Telegraph , Huffington Post, The Spectator , Literary Review , and the Financial Times . [1]

Balch was educated at Felsted School. [2] He graduated from Durham University (Hatfield College) in 1998 with a first-class degree in History and subsequently completed an MPhil at Cambridge. [1] [3]

After leaving university he spent a year living in Bolivia and later moved to Argentina, where he began writing freelance. [4] In 2018 he received a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge (Christ's College). His thesis was entitled "Pulp Fictions: The Role of Detachable Corporate Social Responsibility in Building Legitimacy for Uruguay’s Largest Ever Foreign Investment".

He has had three books published by Faber & Faber: Viva South America! A Journey Round a Restless Continent (2009), [5] India Rising: Tales from a Changing Nation (2012), and Under the Tump: Sketches of Real Life on the Welsh Borders (2016).

Oliver and his wife Emma are co-owners of Pottery Cottage, Clyro and are co-founders of the social enterprise, The Story of Books, based in Hay-on-Wye.

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