Alberto Cairo

Alberto Cairo is the author of The Functional Art: an Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization, published by PeachPit Press, a division of Pearson Education. He was the director for infographics and multimedia at Editora Globo, the magazine division of the biggest media group in Brazil, where he acted as an executive editor for the weekly news magazine Época and as an internal consultant for 12 other publications.

Alberto led the creation of the interactive infographics department at El Mundo, where his team won more infographics international awards than any other news organization worldwide between 2001 and 2005. He teaches information graphics and visualization at the School of Communication at the University of Miami and was an assistant professor at the School of Journalism, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.