William Pesek Jr.
 

WILLIAM PESEK Jr. is Asia-Pacific columnist for Bloomberg News, based in Tokyo, providing opinions and commentary on economics, business, markets and politics throughout the region. 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 other publications. He writes a monthly column for Bloomberg Markets magazine and appears regularly on Bloomberg Television. He has worked previously as a columnist for Barron's, the Dow Jones weekly magazine, in Washington DC, writing about global economics, politics, and markets. Much of his time was spent following Alan Greenspan, US Treasury, and International Monetary Fund and World Bank officials around the globe. He has also worked for Dow Jones in New York, where he wrote the daily credit markets column for The Wall Street Journal, and the American Banker newspaper. He has a bachelor's degree in business journalism.