Rodrigo Salazar Zimmermann

Executive director, Consejo de la Prensa Peruana, Peru

Peruvian journalist. Executive director of Consejo de la Prensa Peruana, the leading media association of Peru. His articles, chronicles, interviews and opinion pieces have been published in outlets such as El Comercio, La República, Ojo Público, Epicentro, Caretas and El Búho. Former general editor of magazine Semana Económica.

He has a masters in global media communication from the University of Melbourne, Australia. For over a decade, Rodrigo has taught journalism classes in local universities Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas and Universidad Científica del Sur. Author of the short stories collection De nada sirve que prendas la luz and the novel El silencio desde la distancia.