Luciano Nagel (São Leopoldo, July 5th, 1976) is a journalist based in Porto Alegre, Southern region of Brazil. He is graduated in Social Media – Major: Journalism from the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (University of Vale dos Sinos) in São Leopoldo city and post-graduated in Logistics and National Mobilization of the National War College – ESG in Rio de Janeiro. 

Luciano works as a correspondent for O Estado de São Paulo, ‘’Estadão’’ (a daily newspaper), Universo Online (UOL) and foreign correspondent for Deutsche Welle in Germany.

As a journalist he has worked in some of Brazil's largest newsrooms as a copywriter, reporter and editor, such as Radio CBN in Rio Janeiro, Radio Guaíba, Radio Bandeirantes and Band News FM in Southern of the country. At Radio CBN, he covered the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (July 2016). At Radio Guaíba and Bandeirantes he worked as a reporter. As special correspondent, Luciano Nagel participated in the coverage of: Chile earthquake (February, 2010), Chilean miners rescue (October 2010), Haitian presidential elections and Cholera epidemic in Haiti (November 2010), Presidential elections in Brazil (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018), Chagas epidemic in Bolivia (August 2012) and World Cup in Brazil (2014). 

In 2009 he received a granted a scholarship from Heinz-Kühn-Stiftung in Germany whose aimed of the foundation is, to support the training and professional development of junior journalists. Consequently he worked, as an intership for Deutsche Welle, located in Bonn, state of North Rhine-Westphalia.