Mark Paul, senior scholar and deputy director of the California program at the New America Foundation, is an award-winning writer, editor, and policy expert with wide experience in journalism and California state government and politics. He covered California for 24 years, first as Editorial Page Editor and National Editor of the Oakland Tribune, then as Deputy Editorial Page Editor and columnist for the Sacramento Bee, where he wrote extensively about fiscal policy, health care, economics, urban development, and political reform. He won the 2000 Best in the West award for editorial writing about California policy. After leaving the Bee, he served as Deputy Treasurer and Policy Director in the California State Treasurer's Office and as Policy Director for the 2006 gubernatorial campaign of Phil Angelides.
Paul received his B.A. and a master’s degree in history from Stanford University. He has taught international relations and modern U.S. history at Simon Fraser University and Stanford University, and was an editor of Inquiry, a magazine published by the Cato Institute. He is the author of “Diplomacy Delayed: The Atomic Bomb and the Division of Korea, 1945,” in Child of Conflict: The Korean-American Relationship, 1945-1953. His articles and commentaries have also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Inquiry, and Mother Jones. A Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Paul is currently working on a book on political reform in California.
