Eduardo Porter, the Ratner visitor in fall 2015, writes the Economic Scene column for The New York Times. He previously served on the paper’s editorial board, writing about business and economics.

In 2000, Porter joined The Wall Street Journal, covering business and the growing Hispanic population in Los Angeles. He joined The Times in 2004 to cover economics. 

Porter previously worked as a financial reporter for Notimex, a Mexican news agency, in Mexico City. He has also worked as a correspondent in Tokyo and London, and in 1996 moved to São Paulo, Brazil, as editor of América Economía, a business magazine.

In The Price of Everything, published in 2012, Porter discusses the economics of the prices people pay each day, how those prices differ across societies and how even small economic decisions shape people’s lives.

Porter graduated with a degree in physics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and has an M.Sc. in quantum fields and fundamental forces from the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London.

The Ratner Distinguished Visiting Business Journalist Program brings a distinguished visitor each semester to Baruch College’s Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions.

Created with a gift from Forest City Ratner Companies and its founder and executive chairman Bruce Ratner, the program enables journalists to spend a week in residence, speaking in classes, mentoring students and meeting with the staff of Dollars & Sense, the department’s award-winning online magazine.

Forest City Ratner‘s major New York institutions include The New York Times Building and the Barclays Center.