Jason Karaian is a financial journalist. Currently, he is Business News Director at The New York Times. Previously, Karaian was the global finance and economics editor at Quartz. Before that, he was at The Economist Group, first at the European edition of CFO magazine, and later, as financial services editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit. He also served as industries editor for The World In and wrote about everything from banks to bonds to basketball for The Economist. His first book, “The Chief Financial Officer: What CFOs Do, the influence They have, and Why it Matters,” was published in 2014. Karaian received his B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University.