Neil Irwin is senior economic correspondent at
The New York Times, where he was a founding member of The Upshot. He is the author of
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire, a
New York Times bestselling account of the global financial crisis and its aftermath, short-listed for the McKinsey-Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. He has an
M.B.A. from Columbia University, where he was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economic and Business Journalism. He lives in Washingto
