Bob Davis is a former senior editor who covers economic issues out of the Washington D.C. bureau, especially relations between the U.S. and China. In 2020, he co-authored "Superpower Showdown," with The Wall Street Journal's Lingling Wei, which chronicles the economic and trade battles between the two nations. He was posted in China from 2011 to 2014.

In China he did his best to get out of Beijing and see China beyond the luxury stores and report on the changes that were remaking the country and global economy. Similarly, back in D.C., he ranges beyond the Beltway to see how America is changing.

Before he decamped to Beijing, Mr. Davis ran economic coverage during the global financial crisis and, before that, reported on Washington’s response to the Asian financial crisis. From 2004 to 2007, he was the Journal's Latin America bureau chief, based in Washington, D.C., and covered the resurgence of populist politics. Under his direction, the bureau won the Overseas Press Club award for Latin America coverage in 2005.

He was The Wall Street Journal's Brussels bureau chief in 2001-2002 and was responsible for coverage of the European Union.

In 2000, he was awarded the Raymond Clapper award for Washington reporting for coverage of the White House negotiations with China over the World Trade Organization. A year earlier, he was part of a team of Journal reporters that won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for coverage of the Asian and Russian financial crisis.

In 1998, he co-authored "Prosperity," which was selected by Business Week as one of the year's 10 best business books.

In November 2021, he retired from the Wall Street Journal after 39 years at the newspaper.