Timothy L. O’Brien is the Senior Executive Editor of Bloomberg Opinion, Bloomberg’s editorial brand for analysis and opinion about business, markets, politics, international affairs, finance and the most seminal news events of the day.

Timothy L. O’Brien is the Senior Executive Editor of Bloomberg Opinion, Bloomberg’s editorial brand for analysis and opinion about business, markets, politics, international affairs, finance and the most seminal news events of the day.

Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2013, O’Brien was the Executive Editor of The HuffPost, where he helped oversee a newsroom of more than 400 editors and reporters. He conceived, edited and oversaw a ten-part series about wounded veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan for which The HuffPost won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012.

Before O’Brien joined the HuffPost in 2011, he edited and oversaw the Sunday Business section of The New York Times from 2006 to 2010. Before taking over as editor, O’Brien was a reporter for The Times covering international finance, geopolitics, media, technology and a wide array of other business topics. While at the Times, he won a Loeb Award for Distinguished Business Journalism in 1999. He has also worked for The Wall Street Journal and National Geographic.

O’Brien has a B.A. cum laude in literature from Georgetown University, as well as an M.A. in U.S. History, an M.S. in Journalism, and an MBA, all from Columbia University. He is the author of three books. The most recent, “The Lincoln Conspiracy,” was published by Random House in 2012. He is also the author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald,” and “Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz, and Danger of America’s Gambling Industry.”