John Simons, Markle Fellow, is the Wall Street Journal’s Deputy Coverage Chief for Health and Science. He was previously the Journal’s energy editor in London, where he managed a team of reporters covering energy companies, major oil producers, and OPEC in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Prior to joining the Journal in 2016, he was business editor at International Business Times and technology and media editor at the Associated Press.
Simons was a staff writer at Fortune magazine from 2001 to 2009, where he covered biotech, pharmaceuticals, and technology-related industries. He also wrote about a range of subjects for Fortune, including technology, U.S. immigration reform, and the insurance industry’s early embrace of climate change.
In 2000, he was a Markle Fellow at New America, where he focused on technology policy and economic opportunity in the digital age. Early in his career, he was an economic policy reporter at the Wall Street Journal, and a senior editor at U.S. News & World Report. He is a graduate of Northeastern University and lives in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife and daughter.