Chief Economics Commentator, Deputy Economics Editor
The Wall Street Journal
Greg Ip is chief economics commentator and deputy economics editor of The Wall Street Journal, where he helps oversee coverage of the U.S. and global economies and writes about economic developments and policy in the weekly “Capital Account” column.
Ip received a bachelor’s degree in economics and journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1989. He has worked for The Wall Street Journal since 1996, except for six years from 2008 to 2015, when he was U.S. economics editor for The Economist. In 2002, he shared in the Pulitzer Prize for the Journal’s coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. In 2022, he received a Dateline award from the D.C. Society of Professional Journalists for his coverage of Washington.
Ip is the author of “The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World” (Wiley, 2010) and “Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe,” (Little, Brown, 2015).