Peter S. Canellos was named editor of The Boston Globe’s Editorial Page in July 2009. Previously, he was the Globe’s Washington bureau chief and the author of the “National Perspective” column since 2003. He also edited “Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy,” which reached number 7 on The New York Times bestseller list. From 1999 to 2003, Canellos served as metro editor, overseeing all local coverage. He covered the presidential campaigns in 1992 and 1996, served as a national roving correspondent and for a time was a Sunday writer emphasizing legal affairs. Before that, he was City Hall bureau chief in 1992 and 1993, and was the lead reporter on the 1993 Boston mayoral race. He began his career at the Globe in 1988, first covering housing and urban affairs, as well as general assignment and the overnight police beat. Canellos is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a law degree from Columbia University.

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.

Lawrence Harmon writes editorials and a weekly column for the op-ed page. Before joining the editorial board in 1992, he was 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 extensively 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.

Derrick Z. Jackson has been a Globe columnist since 1988 and writes editorials on a variety of subjects. Before joining the Globe in 1988, he was a sports writer and news reporter at Newsday and the Kansas City Star. Jackson was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University in 1984 and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary in 2001. A native of Milwaukee, Jackson is a 1976 graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

Scot Lehigh has covered state and national politics since 1985. His column appears twice weekly on the Op-ed page. Lehigh came to the Globe in 1989 from the Boston Phoenix, where he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for his coverage of the 1988 presidential campaign. He covered the 1992 presidential campaign as an on-the-plane reporter, and wrote about the 1996 and 2000 campaigns as the paper's Focus writer. He graduated from Colby College and has a master's degree from the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

Joan Vennochi writes about national and local politics, and also covers issues relating to business, law and culture. Her column appears twice weekly on the op-ed page. Previously, Vennochi was business columnist, City Hall bureau chief, and State House bureau chief. She began her career at the paper as a researcher on the Spotlight Team, the newspaper's investigative unit. She shared in a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the team for local investigative reporting. She is a graduate of Boston University and Suffolk Law School.

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.

Joanna Weiss writes editorials and a weekly column for the Globe op-ed page. Previously, she worked for the Globe's Arts department as a TV critic and pop culture reporter, blogged relentlessly about "American Idol," and wrote a regular column about parenting. Weiss has also worked as a metro reporter and covered cover local and national politics. Before joining the Globe in 1999, she covered Louisiana politics for the Times-Picayune of New Orleans. She studied history and literature at Harvard.