Christopher Nelson is a Senior Vice President of Samuels International Associates, a Washington, D.C. consulting firm where he serves as Editor and Publisher of The Nelson Report, a daily "insider's" look at foreign policy and trade issues.

Nelson has been a consultant since leaving Capitol Hill in 1983, to join Teramura International, a new company designed to facilitate US-Asia business and diplomatic relations. What became The Nelson Report started at that time. Nelson joined Samuels International in 1997.

Nelson is a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover, 1962 and The University of California, Berkeley, 1967. He did graduate studies at McGill University, Montreal. His career began with United Press International, in New York, in 1967, and he has spent his professional life as a journalist and Asia policy specialist with a special focus on Japan, China/Taiwan and Korea.

Capitol Hill jobs have included the House International Relations Subcommittee on Asia, where he handled normalization of relations with China, during the Carter Administration; and the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, under then-Majority Leader Robert Byrd, during the Reagan Administration.

The Nelson Report is an interactive information service, using email, phones and fax, allowing clients to pose private questions for their own use, in addition to seeking details from the daily Report. The focus of the Report is the politics and the personalities of the policy making process""in addition to the results and implications for Asia interests.

His hobbies include American history, especially the Civil War, and serving with friends in a Civil War re-enactment group (think Kamakura Festival with muskets!). He has published two books and countless articles on the Civil War, and been a talking head on History Channel television specials.