Bret Stephens is the deputy editorial page editor responsible for the international opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal. He continues to write "Global View," the paper’s weekly foreign-affairs column. He is also a member of the Journal’s editorial board and a regular panelist on The Journal Editorial Report, a weekly political talk show carried by Fox News Channel.

Mr. Stephens joined the Journal in 1998 as an op-ed editor and moved to Brussels the following year, where he wrote editorials and edited a column on the European Union. He left Dow Jones in January 2002 to become editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, where he was responsible for the paper's news, editorial, international and electronic editions. He oversaw the paper's most extensive redesign in its then 70-year history and also wrote a weekly column.

Mr. Stephens returned to the Journal in late 2004. In January 2005, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2006 Mr. Stephens was recognized by the South Asian Journalists Association for his "outstanding coverage" of the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir. In 2008 he received the Frank Knox Media Award for his writings on national defense. His "Global View" columns ranging from the World Bank to Iran to global warming won him the Eric Breindel award in 2008. In 2010 he was awarded the Bastiat Prize for Journalism for his writings on economic issues.

Mr. Stephens was raised in Mexico City. He has an undergraduate degree from The University of Chicago and a Master's from The London School of Economics. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.