George Melloan is deputy editor, international, of The Wall Street Journal, responsible for the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal Europe, headquartered in Brussels, and The Asian Wall Street Journal, based in Hong Kong. He also writes a weekly column, "Global View," which appears all three papers.

Mr. Melloan was born in Greenwood, Ind., joined the Journal as a reporter in Chicago, reported from Detroit and managed Journal bureaus in Cleveland and Atlanta before joining the paper's page-one department in New York in 1961. In the late 1960s, he was a Journal foreign correspondent based in London. He covered, among other stories, the Six-Day War in Palestine, the Biafran War in Nigeria and the Kosygin economic reforms in the Soviet Union.

After four years in London, Mr. Melloan joined the Journal editorial page in 1970 and became deputy editor in 1973. Working with Robert Bartley, the Journal's editor, he helped guide Journal editorial policy through the 1970s and 1980s. Mr. Melloan became deputy editor, international, in November 1989, moving to Brussels to be in closer touch with the overseas editorial pages. He returned to the New York office in late 1994 and continues his supervision of editorial page activities outside the U.S. from that base.

Mr. Melloan has won the Gerald Loeb Award for excellence in financial journalism and two Daily Gleaner awards from the Inter-American Press Association for writings about Central America. In 1978, he and his wife, Joan, were co-authors of a book Titled "The Carter Economy," discussing Jimmy Carter's policies in the first year of his presidency. They live in Westfield, N.J., and have three children, Jim, Melissa and Maryanne.