World Press Freedom Day 2018

Mark Nelson is Senior Director at the National Endowment for Democracy where he heads the Center for International Media Assistance, a research and knowledge platform focused on the role of news media in building and sustaining democratic societies. Mr. Nelson joined CIMA from the World Bank, where he spent 17 years as a governance and capacity development expert. Before moving to Washington in 2004, he spent eight years in Paris as head of the World Bank Institute’s European office, where he focused on democratic governance, including the role of the media. From 1985 through 1996, Mr. Nelson was European diplomatic correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, based in Brussels, Berlin and Paris.