Brian Spegele
Senior Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
Brian Spegele is a senior correspondent in The Wall Street Journal's Beijing bureau.
He writes broadly about political, economic and business development in China, and he has traveled throughout the country for his reporting. This is Brian’s second posting in China for the Journal. He was previously based in Beijing as a reporter from 2011 to 2017, where he covered the rise and early rule of President Xi Jinping.
He also has served as a reporter for the Journal’s financial enterprise team in New York, where he investigated topics including the Trump Organization's finances and the role of private equity in the U.S. healthcare system.
Brian won a Knight-Bagehot fellowship at Columbia University in 2017 and earned an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and Italian.