Gerard Baker is Editor At Large of The Wall Street Journal. He writes columns and commentary for the Journal and will be hosting a WSJ TV news and interview show on Fox. Mr. Baker previously served as Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones from 2013 to 2018. Before that, Mr. Baker was Deputy Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal. 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. 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. From 1994 to 2004, Mr. Baker worked for the Financial Times, first as Tokyo Correspondent, where he wrote about the country's financial crisis. In addition to the Journal, the FT, The Times and the BBC, Mr. Baker's work has appeared in many other publications, and he has been a frequent television and radio contributor in the UK and the U.S. Mr. Baker was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, where he graduated in 1983 with a First Class Honours Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
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