Stephen Fidler has been Brussels Editor of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires since October 2009, leading coverage of the European Union and the euro-zone debt crisis, as well as writing a weekly column and other articles.

Before joining the Journal, he spent more than 20 years with the Financial Times in senior roles, including capital markets editor, Latin America Editor, and U.S. diplomatic editor, based in Washington DC.

He spent almost a decade as a correspondent for Reuters in London, New York and the Middle East. He holds a degree in economics from London University, and was formerly a senior consulting fellow for the International Institute of Strategic Studies.