Christopher ConteChristopher Conte is an American journalist, writer and editor based in Silver Spring, Maryland. After starting his career as a local and statewide reporter in Vermont, he covered budget and economic policy for Congressional Quarterly magazine and thn spent 15 years as a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal, where he covered economics, labor, transportation and the White House before becoming an editor focusing on domestic and international affairs and writing page one columns on labor and politics. After leaving the Journal, he worked as a freelance journalist for publications including Governing Magazine and AARP; as a consultant on development and economic policy for the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, and Gateway House Global Council on International Relations, and as a researcher and writer writer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Benton Foundation, where he specialized, respectively, in health policy and communications. Working with the International Center for Journalists and the World Association of Newspaper Editors and Publishers (WAN-IFRA), he has trained journalists in many countries -- especially Africa but also India and east Asia. He developed an abiding interest in Uganda during a three-year stint as a media trainer and consultant focusing on health issues. Read More Read Less