Paul A. Gigot
Washington Columnist
Member of the Editorial Board
The Wall Street Journal
Washington, D.C.

Paul Gigot is a member of editorial board of The Wall Street Journal and writes the "Potomac Watch" column, appearing in the paper each Friday.

Mr. Gigot appears regularly on public television as a political analyst on "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" and periodically on NBC's "Meet the Press" and Fox news. The National Journal has named him one of Washington's 25 most influential journalists.

In 1980, Mr. Gigot joined the Journal as a reporter in Chicago, and in 1982, he became the paper's Asia correspondent, based in Hong Kong. He won a 1984 Overseas Press Club award for his reporting on the Philippines. Also in 1984, he was named the first editorial page editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal. Based in Hong Kong, he contributed commentary to the U.S. and Asian editions of the Journal. He took a year's leave of absence in September 1986 to serve as a White House Fellow and returned to the Journal as a columnist and editorial board member in Washington.

Mr. Gigot is a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, where he was chairman of the daily student newspaper. He has also worked for the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong and the National Review in New York. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.