Reginald Green

Reg Green is a British-born journalist who was the chief business writer of the (London) Daily Telegraph. He was also an economics writer with the (London) Times and the Guardian and a freelance commentator for the BBC. In 1970 he emigrated to the United States in 1970 and, after working in financial public relations, started and edited a financial newsletter. His life changed in 1994 when his seven-year old son, Nicholas, was shot in an attempted robbery while on a family vacation in Italy. He...See more

Reg Green is a British-born journalist who was the chief business writer of the (London) Daily Telegraph. He was also an economics writer with the (London) Times and the Guardian and a freelance commentator for the BBC. In 1970 he emigrated to the United States in 1970 and, after working in financial public relations, started and edited a financial newsletter. His life changed in 1994 when his seven-year old son, Nicholas, was shot in an attempted robbery while on a family vacation in Italy. He and his wife, Maggie, donated Nicholas' organs to seven Italians and changed the way Italy thought about organ donation. Until then Italy has almost the lowest donation rate in Western Europe. In the 10 years after Nicholas was killed, donation rates there tripled, a rate of growth no other country had ever come close to, and thousands of people are alive who would have died. Around the world tens of millions of people learned for the first time of the power of organ donation to save multiple lives. Since the transplant Reg has worked virtually every day to increase awareness of the hundreds of thousands of deaths that have been caused worldwide by the shortage of donated organs. Besides The Nicholas Effect, he has written another book, The Gift that Heals, ' that has been used by hospitals and educators around world to introduce doctors, nurses and the public to what organ donation can achieve. He has written dozens of articles and given television interviews for some of the best-known media outlets in the world. See less