James Painter is executive editor for the Americas at the BBC World Service, currently on a career break. In 2006-07 he was visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. He has reported and researched widely on Latin American politics, the global media landscape and climate-change issues. In July 2007 he made a research trip to Indonesia and wrote a paper for Oxfam on the relationship between biofuels, climate change, and land conflicts there.