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Nelson was born near London on 30 April 1929. He was educated at Latymer Upper School, London, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where, from 1949 to 1952, he read Modern History. He took his BA in 1953 and MA in 1958.
In 1952 Nelson joined Reuters as a trainee journalist. He spent three years as a manager and correspondent in Asia. He was then based in London in management and travelled widely throughout the world. From 1962 to 1974 he was Manager of Reuters Economic Services. Nelson was made a member of the Reuter Board in 1976. He was appointed Chairman of the Reuter Foundation in 1982 and Chairman of Visnews, now Reuters TV, in 1985.
The World Economic Forum appointed him Chairman of the Advisory Council of their magazine, World Link, from 1990 to 1992. From 1989 to 1995 he was a Trustee of the International Institute of Communications and from 1989 to 1992 Chairman of its United Kingdom Chapter. He was a member of the Newspaper Panel of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. In 1999 he was appointed for three years as the External Examiner for the MA degree in Journalism at the University of Sheffield. He is an honorary research fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury, a trustee of St.Bride’s Church, a member of the council of the International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST) and Vice-President of the Music Festival of Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France.
In 1997 Syracuse University Press in the United States and Brassey’s in London published his book War of the Black Heavens: The Battles of Western Broadcasting in the Cold War, with a foreword by Lech Walesa.
On the centenary of the death of Queen Victoria on 22 January 2001 I.B. Tauris published his book Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera, with a foreword by Asa Briggs. It was commended at the 2002 Longman-History Today Awards.
His latest book is Golden Summers: Americans and the Making of the Riviera.
Website: www.michaelnelsonbooks.com
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