David J. Lynch is the global economics correspondent for The Washington Post. Previously, he was a Washington correspondent for the Financial Times, covering white-collar crime; Politico's cybersecurity editor; and, a senior writer with Bloomberg News, where he wrote about national security and political economy. At USA TODAY from 1994 to 2010, he followed the global economy and was the newspaper's founding bureau chief in both London and Beijing. He covered the wars in Kosovo and Iraq, the latter as an embedded reporter with the U.S. Marines, and was the paper’s first recipient of a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University. He has reported from more than 60 countries.