Michael WILLIAMS

Southern Europe Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal

Michael Williams is now Southern Europe Bureau Chief at The Wall Street Journal/The Wall Street Journal Europe. He joined the Wall Street Journal in
1992 as news editor and politics and economy correspondent at its Tokyo
bureau, sharing an Overseas Press Club prize in 1997 for coverage of the
Japanese bureaucracy. Williams was the WSJ's assistant foreign editor in
New York from 1996 to 1999 and Tokyo bureau chief from 1999 to early
2003. He is currently the paper's Southern Europe bureau chief, overseeing
coverage of France, Spain and Italy and of several industries, including the
global oil business and the European fashion and aviation sectors. Born in
1962 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Michael Williams graduated from Harvard
University in 1985 and did graduate work at Tokyo University from 1989-90.