Bret Stephens is the foreign affairs columnist of the Wall Street Journal and a deputy editor, with responsibility for the paper's editorial pages in Europe and Asia. He is a member of the paper's editorial board and a regular panelist on The Journal Editorial Report, a weekly political talk show carried nationally by the Fox News Channel.

Mr. Stephens began his career at Commentary magazine and joined the Journal in 1998, first as an op-ed editor in New York and later as an editorial writer in Brussels. In 2002, Mr. Stephens was named editor in chief of The Jerusalem Post, a position he assumed at the age of 28. At the Post, he oversaw the paper's news, editorial, electronic and international editions, wrote a weekly column, and oversaw the paper's most extensive redesign in its then 70-year history.

Mr. Stephens returned to the Journal in 2004. The following year he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He has won numerous journalistic awards, is a frequent guest on Fareed Zakaria GPS, Charlie Rose and other programs, and has been profiled and interviewed by magazines and newspapers world-wide. In 2009, the Atlantic named him one of the most influential political commentators in the United States, noting that "Stephens can make the conservative case for hawkish foreign policy and American unilateralism so convincingly that he has persuaded more than a few liberals to join his side."

Raised in Mexico City, Mr. Stephens was educated at the University of Chicago and the London School of Economics. He lives in New York City with his wife and their three children.

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