Emilio Ocampo

Born in Buenos Aires, Emilio Ocampo lived most of his adult life in England and the United States. He belongs to an Argentine family with a strong literary tradition.

Although fascinated with history all his life, Ocampo's career strayed far from the field. After graduating in economics from the University of Buenos Aires, he got an MBA at the University of Chicago. For the following twelve years he worked as an investment banker in New York and London.

In 2002 he took a sabbatical to write a book about General Carlos de Alvear, one of the leaders of South American independence. This decision took him down an unexpected path. While doing research about Alvear in the British archives he came across an unpublished document that revealed a plan to rescue Napoleon from St. Helena and take him to South America.

The excitement of discovering an unknown aspect of Napoleon's life and an irrepressible curiosity led him to research the archives of Austria, France, Spain, the United States and several South American countries to find the other pieces of a gigantic puzzle. The result was "The Emperor's Last Campaign: A Napoleonic Empire in America" which was selected by the International Napoleonic Society as the best book on the napoleonic era in 2009. Since then he has written two other books and more than a dozen articles about early nineteenth century European and American history.

He currently lives between New York, Buenos Aires and London and continues to write about history and finance.

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