Ed Paisley

Vice President for Editorial

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Ed Paisley is Vice President for Editorial at American Progress. He is a 20-year veteran of business and finance journalism who joined American Progress after successfully launching the specialist Wall Street print and web publication The Deal as its managing editor. At The Deal, he was also responsible for the publication’s award-winning coverage of technology finance and international finance.  

Before moving to New York to launch The Deal in 1999, Paisley spent a decade in East Asia as an editor and journalist covering business, finance, and politics for the Far Eastern Economic Review, a Dow Jones & Co. publication, and Institutional Investor magazine.

Paisley served as the editor of Institutional Investor’s Asia edition for five years, winning an Overseas Press Club award for his coverage of the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China in 1997. From 1989 to 1994, he worked as a print and broadcast journalist for the Far Eastern Economic Review based in Hong Kong and Seoul and traveling throughout East Asia and Southeast Asia. Prior to that, he worked as a correspondent for American Banker newspaper in Washington D.C. covering domestic and international financial regulation. 

Paisley earned a master’s degree in East Asian history from Georgetown University in 1984 and a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from George Mason University in 1982. He also spent a year as a resident docent at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, where he studied Chinese art history.