A native of Perth, Western Australia, Michael Casey is a managing editor at Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal in New York, where he specialises in global financial markets. Casey is the author of two books. His first, Che’s Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image, is a history of and cultural commentary on Alberto Korda’s famous image of Che Guevara, the world’s most reproduced photographic image. It was chosen as one of New York Times’ critic Michiko Kakutani’s Top Ten picks of 2009.
His second book, The Unfair Trade: How Our Broken Global Financial System Destroys the Middle Class, looks at the global financial crisis through the stories of ordinary citizens around the world. Casey lives in Pelham, New York, with his wife and two daughters.
