Kenneth Rapoza is a former staff correspondent for The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires in Sao Paulo, having left Brazil in 2010. He is a China analyst for the Coalition for a Prosperous America, an economics think tank and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. Rapoza is considered an emerging markets expert by Forbes, where he has written about the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) since 2011.