Hamish McRae, Esq

Career: grad trainee Liverpool Post 1966-67, asst ed then dep ed The Banker 1967-72, ed Euromoney 1972-75, fin ed The Guardian 1975-89, business and city ed The Independent 1989-91 (assoc ed 1991-); Harold Wincott Young Fin Journalist of the Year 1971, Harold Wincott Fin Journalist of the Year 1979, David Walt Prize 2005, Business and Finance Journalist of the Year British Press Awards 2006, Best Communicator Business Journalist of the Year Awards 2007

Books and Publications: Capital City: London as a Financial Centre (with Frances Cairncross, 1973, current edn 1991), The Second Great Crash: how the oil crisis could destroy the world economy (with Nihon Keisai Shimbun, 1975), Japan's Role in the Emerging Global Securities Market (1985), The World In 2020: Power, Culture and Property - a vision of the future (1994), Wake-up Japan! (with Tadashi Nakamae, 2000), What Works: Success in Stressful Times (2010)