Sewell Chan is the deputy Op-Ed editor at The New York Times. He was previously a Washington economic correspondent for the newspaper, the founding bureau chief of the City Room news blog, and a metropolitan reporter covering transportation and City Hall. Before he joined The Times in 2004, he was a staff writer at The Washington Post. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in social studies in 1998, and received a master’s degree in politics from the University of Oxford, where he studied on a British Marshall scholarship, in 2000.