William D. Cohan
William David Cohan is an American business writer. He has written books about the Wall Street industry and is a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, ArtNews, The Irish Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Fortune Magazine. He also appears regularly on MSNBC, on Bloomberg TV, where he is a contributing editor, and on CNN, CurrentTV, BBC-TV, and C-Span. He has also appeared as a guest on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The NewsHour, The Charlie Rose Show and the Tavis Smiley Show, as well as on numerous NPR, BBC and Bloomberg radio programs. After graduating from Duke University in 1981, he was an investigative reporter for the Raleigh Times and won several awards. He then worked on Wall Street for seventeen years as a mergers and acquisitions banker. He spent six years at Lazard Frères in New York, then Merrill Lynch & Co., and later became a managing director at JP Morgan Chase. He also worked for two years at GE Capital. Cohan is a graduate of Duke University, Columbia University School of Journalism, and Columbia University Graduate School of Business.