Dave Carpenter

Dave Carpenter has been AP’s primary business writer in Chicago since 1999 after six years as a foreign correspondent based in Moscow and Vienna, where he was news editor for East Europe. He earlier worked on AP’s International Desk in New York and in the San Francisco, Des Moines and Philadelphia bureaus as well as at newspapers in Alaska and California. He has reported from more than 20 countries, covering wars in Chechnya and Kosovo and two Olympics. A native of Vermont, he graduated from Syracuse University in 1977.