Micheline Maynard is the senior editor of Changing Gears. After joining the staff of The New York Times in 2004, she served as its Detroit bureau chief and aviation reporter. She became a senior business correspondent in 2008 and was a lead reporter in the paper’s coverage of the automobile industry bailout. She is the author of four books including her most recent, “The Selling of the American Economy: How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream,” published by Random House in 2009.