Julia Leite is Bloomberg São Paulo's bureau chief, returning to her native Brazil after three years covering emerging markets for Bloomberg News at the company's headquarters in New York. She helps oversee a team of about thirty journalists covering several topics, including markets, commodities, finance, and deals, besides their real-time services in English and Portuguese. She joined Bloomberg after graduating with a master’s degree in economic journalism from Columbia University in New York. Leite holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Sao Paulo (USP).