Lane Greene is the language columnist and Spain correspondent at The Economist. Previous assignments have included digital news, books and culture, European business, law, energy, the environment, and American politics. He is based in Madrid, after living in London, Berlin and New York. Greene is the author of two books, Talk on the Wild Side (2018) and You Are What you Speak (2011), and won the journalism award from the Linguistic Society of America in 2017. He is a former adjunct assistant professor in Global Affairs at New York University, and is a consultant to Freedom House, a non-governmental organization. He received an M.Phil. from Oxford in European politics, and a B.A. with honors from Tulane in international relations and history, and speaks nine languages.