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Neil Irwin is the Chief economic correspondent at Axios, and formerly served as a senior economic correspondent at the New York Times. He is the author of How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World: The Definitive Guide to Adapting and Succeeding in High-Performance Careers and The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire, a bestselling account of the world's central bankers' battle to subdue the global financial crisis.

Irwin wrote for The Upshot, the Times's site for analytical reporting on politics, economics, and everyday life. There and now at Axios, he applies economic logic to help explain and understand the world around us. He has written on topics as varied as the global economy and financial markets, trends in sports fandom, and the rise and fall of food fads.

Previously, Irwin was a columnist at the Washington Post and economics editor of Wonkblog, the Post's site for analytical journalism. From 2007 to 2012 he was the Post's beat reporter covering the Federal Reserve and the economy. He has often appeared on television analyzing economic topics, including on the PBS Newshour, CNBC, and MSNBC.

The Alchemists, published in 2013 by the Penguin Press and now available in paperback, was a New York Times Bestseller and was short-listed for the Goldman Sachs-Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. It appeared on best-books-of-the-year lists from the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and NPR.

Irwin was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economic and Business Journalism at Columbia University, from which he has an M.B.A. His undergraduate studies were at St. Mary's College of Maryland, where he served on the Board of Trustees from 2007 to 2013.