Bio of SAJA guest
speaker
John Bussey
Foreign Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Friday, April 26, 1996
Pix of Second Annual SAJA Dinner
JOHN
BUSSEY is foreign editor of The Wall Street Journal and is
responsible for paper's overseas correspondents and coverage. John joined the
Journal in 1983 as a reporter in the paper's Chicago bureau and later
worked in its Cleveland and Detroit bureaus. In 1988, he became a writer
and editor on the front-page staff, and was subsequently chief of the
combined Wall Street Journal and Asian Wall Street Journal Tokyo bureau
and then economics editor, based in New York. He became foreign editor
in the fall of 1994. Previous to joining
the paper, he was a reporter for the South China Morning Post in Hong
Kong while on a Henry Luce Foundation fellowship; a reporter for the
Charleston Gazette in West Virginia; and an assistant to the marketing
director of the Washington Star in Washington, D.C. He is a contributing
correspondent to CNBC. John is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Council on Germany.
He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1979.
John Bussey