David Smith

David Smith has been Economics Editor of The Sunday Times since 1989. He is also an assistant editor and policy adviser. He writes monthly columns for Management Today, Professional Investor and Industry Review, and is also a regular contributor to Financial World. 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 and, most recently, Will Europe Work? He was born and brought up in the West Midlands, studied at the Universities of Wales, Oxford and London, and is married with four children.