William Echikson has worked as European foreign correspondent for a series of US publications including the Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and BusinessWeek. From 2001 until 2007, he managed the Brussels bureau for Dow Jones as bureau chief. William also has written, directed and produced for television documentaries for America's Public Broadcasting Service. He has published HYPERLINK "http://www.amazon.com/William-Echikson/e/B001IXQDIG" four books of narrative non-fiction, including a work on the collapse of communism and the history of the Bordeaux wine region. He graduated from Yale College with a Magna Cum Laude degree in history.