Trevor Greene - Author Closing Bigger

Trevor Greene, Author, Journalist, Entrepreneur

Trevor Greene is a dynamic, innovative and well-traveled individual with over 15 years of experience in writing and reporting. He is a speaker of three languages, a published author, an entrepreneur, a trained and experienced liaison officer, and has eight years of highly regarded service in the Canadian Armed Forces.

Greene is a graduate of the University of King's College in Halifax with a Bachelor of Journalism (Honours). After graduation he spent seven years in Japan, working as a business journalist with the Tokyo bureau of Bloomberg News and Japan’s largest newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun. He went on to write a book about Japan’s homeless and then worked as a research editor with the securities branch of a UK investment bank.

Greene returned to Canada in 1995 to join the Royal Canadian Navy, going on to cross the Pacific Ocean to Australia in the Navy's sail training tall ship HMCS Oriole.

After settling in Vancouver and transferring to the army reserves, Greene joined the Vancouver bureau of Bloomberg News as a general assignment reporter on business and finance in Canada and Asia. He also began researching and writing about the so-called poorest postal code in Canada; Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

He wrote his first nonfiction book in Canada, Bad Date: The Lost Girls of Vancouver's Low Track, about the women who have gone missing from the Downtown Eastside over the past 15 years. Bad Date was published in November 2001. Some of his present entrepreneurial projects include an eco-tourism venture and a community volunteer consulting company.

Captain Greene is an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders, a Vancouver-based primary reserve infantry unit, where his main duties are domestic emergency and disaster response, and community and civilian agency liaison. At time of writing he was also preparing for a six-month army deployment to Afghanistan in 2006 as part of Operation Archer.

Greene lives on a boat docked at Fisherman's Wharf on Vancouver's Granville Island. He speaks English, Japanese and French.

To contact Trevor Greene e-mail: trevor@closingbigger.com

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