John Ullmann is executive director of The World Press Institute (WPI). He is a frequent consultant and speaker in the U.S. and other countries on investigative reporting topics and the role and responsibilities of a free press in a democracy.

He is a former assistant managing editor for projects at the Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis. Projects he supervised during his six years won more than four dozen awards, including the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. During the previous five years he was executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and started most of its programs, including its journal and electronic library. He is the originator, co-editor and co-author of The Reporter's Handbook: An investigator's guide to documents and records, and author of Investigative Reporting: Advance methods and techniques.

Mr. Ullmann has a B.S. from Butler University, M.A. from American University, and Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. He taught 19 years (full or part time) at the universities of Alaska-Fairbanks, Missouri, Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Minnesota, and Florida.

Countries where he has given seminars of a week or more include Mexico, Honduras, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Turkey, and Thailand. He has also reported from Japan and Taiwan.