William Pesek Jr.
 

WILLIAM PESEK JR. is an Asia-Pacific columnist for Bloomberg News, based in Tokyo, providing opinions and commentary on economics, business, markets, and politics. He has worked for Bloomberg in Asia since 2001, and his columns routinely appear in the International Herald Tribune, The Australian, The Straits Times, The Japan Times, and many other publications around the world. He writes a monthly column for the Bloomberg Markets magazine and is a regular on Bloomberg Television. He worked previously as a columnist for Barron's, Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, and the American Banker newspaper, writing about global economics, politics, and markets. Much of his time was spent following Alan Greenspan and officials from the US Treasury, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank. He has a bachelor's degree in business journalism from Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York.