EDMUND L. ANDREWS is a journalist, author and analyst in Washington specializing in economic policy and financial regulation. He is currently a senior adviser to Georgetown University's Center for Financial Institutions, Policy and Governance, at the McDonough School of Business.

For nearly two decades, from 1990 through 2009, he was a business and economics correspondent for The New York Times. From 2002 until December 2009, he covered the full gamut of economic policy from Washington—including the financial crisis from its first rumblings. Before that, he spent six years as the Times' European Economics Correspondent, based in Frankfurt, Germany. And from 1990 to 1996, he covered telecommunications and technology policy for the Times in Washington.

Mr. Andrews is also the author of BUSTED: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown (W.W. Norton, May 2009), his first-person account of excesses at all levels that led to the epic financial crisis.

Mr. Andrews graduated magna cum laude from Colgate University in 1978, where he studied international relations. He received a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1981.

He began his career as a reporter in 1979 in Hot Springs, AK. After graduating from Northwestern, he worked two years as an assignment editor in Washington for CNN and for six years as a freelance magazine writer specializing in business.

He is married to Patricia Barreiro and lives with his family in Silver Spring, MD.