Christopher Emsden

Deputy Bureau Chief for Italy, Wall Street Journal

Christopher Emsden has been a journalist for more than two decades in Italy, the U.S., Spain and Eastern Europe most of them covering economic policies for the Wall Street Journal, The Economist Intelligence Unit and other publications.

Raised in rural Colorado and now living in Rome with his wife and daughter he trained as an anthropologist doing fieldwork among so-called pariah castes in southern India which catalyzed his interest in the way social hierarchies are blind to the long biological shadows they cast.