James Dao has been the op-ed editor of the New York Times since February 2016. During Dao’s twenty-seven years with the Times, he has been the Albany bureau chief, a national and Washington correspondent, the military and veterans affairs reporter, and deputy national editor. He has reported from a dozen countries and across the U.S., covering the impeachment of President Clinton, the 2000 presidential campaign, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and Hurricane Katrina. Previously, he worked as a reporter for the Record of Hackensack, NJ, and the Daily News in New York, and was a writer and researcher for the New York Chinatown History Project. Dao is a graduate of Yale College.

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