MICHAEL E. ROSE is a Canadian journalist and broadcaster whose reporting and travel have brought him throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa, India, southeast Asia and Australia. He has worked for major media organizations around the world, including the CBC, Maclean's, UPI, Radio France International, the Sydney Morning Herald and Reuters. From 2003-2006 he was Chief of Communications and Publications for Interpol, based at the agency's headquarters in Lyon, France.