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David Smith

Economics Editor, The Sunday Times

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David Smith has been Economics Editor at The Sunday Times since 1989, where he writes a weekly column. He is also chief leader-writer, an assistant editor, and policy advisor. In addition, he writes columns for The Times, Tax Journal, and other major news publications. He speaks and broadcasts regularly to a wide variety of audiences. Prior to joining The Sunday Times, he worked for The Times, Financial Weekly, Now! Magazine, the Henley Centre for Forecasting, and Lloyds Bank.

David Smith is the author of several books, including The Rise and Fall of Monetarism; Mrs Thatcher’s Economics, North and South, From Boom to Bust, UK Current Economic Policy, Eurofutures, Will Europe Work?, Free Lunch: Easily Digestible Economics, The Dragon & the Elephant: China, India and the New World Order, The Age of Instability: The Global Financial Crisis and What Comes Next, and Something Will Turn Up, Britain’s Economy Past, Present and Future. He also runs his own website— www.economicsuk.com—delivering economic commentary in blog style.

He was born and brought up in the West Midlands and studied at the Universities of Wales, Oxford, and London. He is a visiting professor at both Cardiff University and Nottingham University, and has lectured at Nottingham’s Malaysia and Ningbo (China) campuses. He has won a number of awards, including the Harold Wincott Senior Financial Journalist of the Year Award, the 2013 Economics Commentator of the Year Award, and the 2014 Business Journalist of the Year Award in the London Press Awards.