Andrew Ross Sorkin is The New York Times's chief mergers and acquisitions reporter and a columnist.
Mr. Sorkin is also the editor of DealBook (nytimes.com/dealbook), an online daily financial report he started in 2001, and an assistant finance editor of the paper's Business Day section.

He recently authored the best-selling book, "Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves."

Mr. Sorkin is a frequent guest host of CNBC's "Squawk Box" and often appears on "Charlie Rose" on PBS, He won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2004 for breaking news and SABEW Awards for breaking news in 2005 and again in 2006. In 2007, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader.

Mr. Sorkin began writing for The Times in 1995 under unusual circumstances: he hadn't yet graduated from high school.