William Cohan has joined Bloomberg Television as a contributing editor, according to an announcement Monday from David Rhodes, head of Bloomberg TV.
Cohan will provide analysis on financial issues of the day, including mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy and private equity.
Cohan is the author of the two bestselling books, “House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street” and “The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co.,” which won the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
Previously, Cohan spent six years at Lazard Freres in New York and later became a managing director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. He is a graduate of Duke University , and received both a master’s of science from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and an MBA from its Graduate School of Business.
In addition, Cohan is a contributing editor of Fortune magazine and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Atlantic, Time Magazine and the Daily Beast.
