Renée Loth is editor of the editorial page. She has held this post since 2000; previously she served as deputy editorial page editor for six years. She also was political editor, State House correspondent, and magazine writer for the Globe. Before coming to the Globe, she was an associate editor at New England Monthly magazine, and for five years, a political reporter for the Boston Phoenix. In 1992 she covered the presidential campaign for the Globe, inaugurating the paper's popular Ad Watch column analyzing TV political ads.

In addition to chairing the editorial board, Loth writes frequently on issues of state and national policy, women's rights, and international development.

Loth has a journalism degree from Boston University's School of Public Communication.

Dante Ramos is deputy editorial page editor. Before coming to the Globe's editorial board in 2006, he worked for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans as deputy editorial page editor, as an editorial writer, and as a beat reporter covering education and local government. He has also written for The Economist, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, Salon.com, and other publications.

He has a BA in government from Harvard College.

Donald MacGillis is assistant editorial page editor. He also writes editorials on medicine, science, technology, the environment, and other issues. Before joining the editorial board in 2000, he worked on the Globe's metro staff, serving as an assistant metro editor for health, science, and higher education and as an assistant city editor. He came to the Globe after serving as executive editor and editorial page editor of The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield.

He holds a BA from Yale College.

Alan Berger joined the Globe in 1982 as an editorial writer. He is an expert on foreign policy and security issues.

Berger wrote a column about the world press for the Globe before joining the editorial page, and also was a freelance writer for several publications. He taught literature and philosophy at MIT, where he was an assistant professor.

Berger has a BA from Harvard in history and literature, and an MA in comparative literature from Cornell.

Thomas Gagen has been a member of the Globe staff since 1972, and has been writing editorials since 1987. Now the chief editorial writer, he has focused recently on city development issues, transportation, health care, Northern Ireland, and the Sept. 11 crisis. He has visited Africa five times since 1985, and has written many editorials about its difficulties and prospects.

Gagen is a graduate of Harvard College.

Lawrence Harmon joined the editorial board in 1992. He was previously editor of the Citizen Group papers and wrote for the old Boston Ledger and Jewish Advocate. He co-authored "The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions" (Free Press, 1992).

Harmon writes mostly on urban affairs, education, law enforcement issues, and housing policy.

He has a BS from Boston University's Metropolitan College, and an MA from Simmons College.

Alyssa Haywoode has been a member of the editorial board since 1996. She previously was an editorial writer for the Des Moines Register and a reporter-researcher for SmartMoney Magazine. Haywoode focuses on social issues, including welfare and homelessness, as well as arts, race, and education.

Haywoode has an AB from Harvard University and an MFA from the University of Iowa.

Globe cartoonist Daniel Wasserman joined the Globe in 1985. He is syndicated in 40 papers in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe, and is the author of two books, "We've Been Framed" (Faber & Faber) and "Paper Cuts" (Ivan R. Dee, 1995).

Wasserman has a BA from Swarthmore College and studied at The Arts Students League of New York.