Jeremy Fox

I was educated at Oxford and London Universities and Cranfield School of Management and hold degrees in Modern Languages, Latin-American Studies (History and Economic History), and Business. I Have been variously a periodical and book publisher, a journalist, a university teacher, the artistic director of a theatre company, a British Council Overseas Career Service Officer and a management consultant. During a long period of residence in Mexico, I founded and co-directed a bi-lingual theatre company, gave university-level courses in Literature and Economic History, and was the first editor of a Spanish-language journal published by CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas). I have written plays in both English and Spanish. My first novel - The Chocolate Man – was published in Canada in 1995; the second – Conquest – in the UK in 2021. Non-fiction writings include commissioned books on Brazil and Colombia, the ‘Latin American’ volume of Purnell’s ‘History of the Twentieth Century’, and countless articles and shorter pieces. I have also translated several books from French and Spanish into English.

Among non-literary activitie, I was the founding partner of Fox Jones & Associates, a Canadian management consulting firm which I helped to run for twenty years. The firm conducted assignments for both public and private sector clients throughout North and South America, in India, Africa and Europe. I have been an adviser on Latin-America to both the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and the Canadian International Development Agency. For ten years I was President of a company specializing in the provision of training and learning support for adult students and employees with special needs. In 2014 I co-founded Democracia Abierta (part of the Open Democracy cooperative) an on-line web journal in Spanish, Portuguese and English. In addition to my native English, I also speak fluent Spanish, Portuguese and French.