Upon ending a career in various communications management roles at the World Bank, Christopher Neal returned from Washington D.C. to his native Montreal in 2016. In the 1980s, he worked as a journalist with the Montreal Gazette and Ottawa Citizen, and as a freelance correspondent in Latin America. He was later a communications manager at two international development NGOs, and at Global Affairs Canada (then CIDA), where he served as Director-General of Communications. His book, The Rebel Scribe – Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to U.S. Policy in Latin America, will be published in the autumn of 2021.