Kevin Roose is a business columnist for The New York Times and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Previously, he was the Vice President of Editorial at Fusion Media Group, an executive producer and co-host of "Real Future," an original television series about technology and the future, and a columnist at New Yorkmagazine.

Roose is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Young Money, an intimate portrait of the lives of eight young Wall Street bankers after the financial crash of 2008. The book was optioned for a TV show by Fox Television Studios, and has been translated into several languages. His first book, The Unlikely Disciple, about the semester he spent undercover as a student at the ultra-conservative Liberty University, was published while he was still in college.

Roose has been named to Forbes' "30 Under 30" list of media leaders and Time's list of the 140 best Twitter feeds, and his work has been featured in The Best Business Writing, GQ, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and other publications. He has appeared on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," CNN, NPR, MSNBC, CNBC, and many other outlets. He lives in Brooklyn.