Pesek hired as executive editor of Barron’s Asia

William Pesek, a columnist for Bloomberg View based in Asia, has been named executive editor of Barron’s Asia.

Pesek will write a daily column that will focus on macroeconomics, policy, politics and markets in Asia. Barron’s Asia celebrated its first anniversary in October.

Tokyo-based Pesek has more than 20 years of economics, business and political reporting experience in the United States and Asia. He is the author of “Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan’s Lost Decades” and is recipient of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers prize for commentary.

Since joining Bloomberg in 2000, Pesek’s columns have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, the Sydney Morning Herald, the New York Post, the Straits Times, the Japan Times and many other publications around the world.

Pesek began his journalism career writing for the American Banker and Bond Buyer newspapers. He also worked for Dow Jones Newswires, where he wrote the daily credit markets column for the Wall Street Journal. Pesek earned a bachelor’s degree in business journalism from Bernard M. Baruch College-City University of New York.