Dan Bilefsky is an award-winning journalist, author, editor, lecturer, broadcaster and communications strategist who spent two decades as an international correspondent for The New York Times. A versatile writer with a global perspective, Dan has been based in London, Paris, New York, Brussels, Prague, Istanbul, Seoul and his hometown of Montreal.

He was part of the Times team awarded the 2022 Polk Award for foreign reporting for an investigation of the Haitian President’s assassination. The work was also a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.

Dan spent many years as a business reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, and is especially skilled at distilling complex financial and regulatory issues for a global audience. He is fluent in French and Hebrew and speaks some Portuguese.

Dan served as an EU, NATO, and UN correspondent for The Times. During his journalist career, he has covered, among other things, the wars in Ukraine and Georgia; elections in Britain, Justin Trudeau’s political scandals; Brexit; the independence of Kosovo; the Greek economic crisis; Indigenous rights and the rise of the far right in Europe. He has also been a culture writer for The Times, writing on subjects ranging from Franglais hip hop to the cultural meaning of Celine Dion.

Dan is also a critically acclaimed author, public speaker and lecturer. His last book, “The Last Job,” a true crime thriller about a gang of geriatric diamond thieves in London, was published by Norton and optioned by Hollywood. The best-selling detective novelist Louise Penny called the book "a fabulous read, gripping, at times hilarious, at times, terrifying, always astonishing.” The New York Times called the book a “meticulously researched procedural,” and Dan “a brisk, enthusiastic storyteller.” He also edited a book on the birth of the euro.

Armed with a zest for teaching and mentoring younger journalists, Dan has taught journalism at Sciences Po in Paris, London’s City University, Montreal’s McGill University and NYU. He also gives writing workshops to busy executives who aspire to write like Hemingway.

Dan is an experienced broadcaster in both English and French. He has appeared widely on radio and television, including as a frequent guest on BBC Television News. He has also appeared on CBC, CNN, The “Daily” podcast and many French language outlets.

Dan has a BA in history and literature from The University of Pennsylvania (Summa Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa), and received an MPhil in European politics from Oxford University.

When not writing or editing, Dan enjoys CrossFit, playing piano and scouring the world in search of memorable food and wine.