Duff McDonald is a New York-based journalist. A contributing editor at The New York Observer, he has also written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York, Esquire, Fortune, Business Week, Conde Nast Portfolio, GQ, WIRED, Time, Newsweek, and others.
He is the author of The Firm: The Story of McKinsey & Its Secret Influence on American Business, published in September 2013. Last Man Standing, his biography of Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase, was published in October 2009.
In 2004, he was the recipient of two Canadian National Magazine Awards — Best Business Story (gold) and Best Investigative Reporting (silver) — for Conrad’s Fall in National Post Business. He is also the co-author, with Owen Burke, of The CEO, a satire.