Jonathan Dahl, Active Board

Jonathan Dahl

Jonathan Dahl is a 27-year veteran of The Wall Street Journal, where he has served as a reporter, columnist and section editor. For the past five years, he has been editor in chief of SmartMoney, the Wall Street Journal's personal finance magazine. Both the magazine and its website have won more than a dozen awards during Dahl's tenure, including two SABEW General Excellence awards, several Deadline Club, New York Press Club awards and two Gerald Loeb nominations. Since the financial crisis of 2008, the magazine has been a strong advocate of investigative stories and has increased its emphasis on the importance of global investing and awareness of international events.

He began his career as a police reporter for the Houston Chronicle. At the Journal, he created the paper's first travel column and helped launch the Weekend Journal section, serving as its editor for three years.
A frequent guest speaker, Dahl has moderated several panels and interviewed leading CEOs at industry conferences. He has appeared on TV shows such as CNBC's Squawk Box and ABC's Good Morning America and was a guest host on CNBC Reports. His book, 1,001 Things They Won't Tell You (Workman Publishing), is based on SmartMoney's long-running "10 Things" feature and was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection.

A summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia College, Dahl received his Master of Science degree from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. He has been an adjunct professor at New