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Peter Gumbel
Europe Editor
FORTUNE

Peter Gumbel joined FORTUNE as Europe Editor in June of 2007. Based in FORTUNE's offices in Paris, he is responsible for FORTUNE's European coverage. Gumbel was previously at TIME in Paris where he worked as a senior writer covering European business and politics.

A journalist and foreign correspondent for more than 20 years, Gumbel spent 16 years at the Wall Street Journal prior to his near five-year-run at TIME, working in New York, Moscow, Paris, Berlin, and Los Angeles, where he served as the paper's bureau chief for four years.

While in Moscow, Gumbel covered the rise and fall of President Gorbachev and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, earning him two awards from the Overseas Press Club of America. Gumbel has also won several other prestigious journalism awards, including being named Journalist of the Year by the London-based Work Foundation.

Gumbel's book on France, French Vertigo, which was published in November of 2006, was written in French and proved to be hugely popular with readers.

Aside from his achievements as a journalist and author, Gumbel has also taught at Science Po's graduate school of journalism in Paris.