Project: "Business Off the Grid: Free Enterprise and the Brighter African Future."

Bio:

 Before his fellowship, Alex was a reporter at BusinessWeek.com in New York and a reporting assistant at Dow Jones Newsletters. His work has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Slate and The Cambodia Daily. Now a freelance writer based in New York City, he received an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in English Literature at McGill University.