Wale Fatade is a commissioning editor with The Conversation Africa, a general news magazine by academics. He has been a journalist for nearly three decades. He was a reporter and editor with three newspapers in Nigeria and also had stints in the development sector with some international agencies.
A past winner of the Nigeria Media Merit Award, he is a graduate of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and was also a Ford Foundation International Fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York between 2004 and 2005, graduating with a Master of Science degree.