Ernesto Semán is a historian, journalist, nonfiction writer and novelist. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1969. In 1999, he published his first book, Educando a Fernando: Cómo se construyó De la Rúa Presidente, a nonfiction account of Fernando de la Rúa’s presidential campaign that year. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies, and is working on a history of Latin American populist movements in the post-war period and their relationship with North American foreign policy. His articles appear regularly in newspapers and magazines in Argentina, as well as in other Latin American countries and the United States. Soy un bravo piloto de la Nueva China is his third novel, and the first to be translated into English.