Bio
Paul Blustein is a CIGI senior fellow. An award-winning journalist and author, he has written extensively about international economics, trade and financial crises. Prior to joining CIGI in 2010, Paul was a journalist-in-residence at the Brookings Institution, a staff writer for The Washington Post and the chief economic correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Paul released his sixth book, Schism: China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System, in September 2019.
A native of Washington, DC, Paul attended the University of Wisconsin (B.A., history), before heading to Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, graduating with an M.A. in philosophy, politics and economics in 1975. He lives in Kamakura, Japan, with his wife, Yoshie Sakai, and is the father of four children.