Alexander Burns

Alexander Burns

• Senior Executive Editor, North America, Politico

Alexander Burns is POLITICO's Senior Executive Editor for North America, leading the newsroom's political and policy coverage across the United States and Canada. He began his career at POLITICO in 2008, joined The New York Times in 2015 as a national political correspondent covering the 2016 and 2020 elections, and returned to POLITICO in 2022. He is co-author, with Jonathan Martin, of "This Will Not Pass." A New York City native, he is a graduate of Harvard College.