Mary Williams Walsh

Mary Williams Walsh joined The New York Times as a business and financial writer in 2000. Previously, she was a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal. Her first foreign posting, for the Journal, was to Mexico in the 1980s, during a vast debt crisis that spread all the way from the Rio Grande to the southern reaches of Argentina. That experience gave her a lasting interest in debt, sustainability issues, and ways of dealing with major insolvencies. She also writes about health care, insurance, bankruptcy, and the broad financial challenges of an aging population. Her reporting has been honored with a George Polk Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award, and Columbia University’s Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize. She studied accounting and finance as a Walter Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard upon her return to reporting in the United States in 1998.