David Gelles

David Gelles is a reporter for The New York Times’s Sunday Business section, writing about tech, sustainability, executive compensation and more. He also writes the Revalued column, which covers social and environmental responsibility in the business world, and is working with the Well team to expand The Times's coverage of meditation.

Before joining Sunday Business, Mr. Gelles was a reporter at DealBook, The Times's Wall Street blog, covering mergers, acquisitions, corporate taxes and inversions. Mr. Gelles joined The Times in 2013 after five years as a reporter for the Financial Times, for which he covered mergers, acquisitions, media and technology from New York and San Francisco. During his time at the Financial Times he conducted an exclusive jailhouse interview with Bernard L. Madoff.

Mr. Gelles is the author of "Mindful Work: How Meditation Is Changing Business From the Inside Out," which was published in 2015 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and at Boston University. He lives in New York with his family.