Shawn Tully has been writing feature stories for Fortune since 1980. He’s covered stories as varied as the Vatican’s finances, the exile of fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich, and the disastrous merger between Guidant and Boston Scientific. He specializes in banking, federal budget and spending issues, and health care. Tully holds a B.A. in English from Princeton University, an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and a master’s in Applied Economics from the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.