Mark Maathuis worked as an international correspondent for United Press International and reported for several Dutch magazines and Web sites on American politics, the "war on terror" and legal issues. He holds two master's degrees, one in journalism from American University and the other in civil law from Leiden University. Mark has been a fellow in our Washington, D.C., office since November 2007. He is a native speaker of Dutch, fluent in English, proficient in French and German, and speaks basic Italian.