Gerard Baker Biography

Gerard Baker is the former Managing Editor of Dow Jones and Editor-in-Chief of The Wall Street Journal a role he held from January 1 2013 to June 10 2018. Since stepping down Gerard Baker writes the Editor at Large column for Review.
Prior to his appointment as Editor-in-Chief Mr. Baker served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires with responsibilities across the full spectrum of the company’s journalism including the print and digital editions of the Journal as well as Newswires.
Before joining the Journal Mr. Baker was the U.S. Editor and an Assistant Editor of The Times of London where he wrote news and commentary for Britain’s longest continuously published newspaper and oversaw U.S. coverage for the paper and online editions.
From 1994 to 2004 Mr. Baker worked for the Financial Times first as Tokyo Correspondent where he wrote about the country’s financial crisis and then from 1998 to 2002 as Washington Bureau Chief where he led a team of 10 correspondents and provided extensive reporting and analysis of the Federal Reserve. From 2002 to 2004 he was the FT’s Chief U.S. Commentator and an Associate Editor.

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