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Board of Contributing EditorsOMFIF is a joint venture between Michael Lafferty and David Marsh, making use of their 60 years of combined financial experience. The Board of Contributing Editors is headed by William Keegan.
He has sat on a range of advisory committees, including the BBC Advisory Committee on Business and Industrial Affairs, the Employment Institute Council and the Department of Applied Economics Advisory Board, University of Cambridge. He is visiting Professor of Journalism at Sheffield University and a Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. His books include 2066 and All That, The Spectre of Capitalism, Mrs Thatcher’s Economic Experiment, Mr Lawson’s Gamble, Britain Without Oil, and The Prudence of Mr Gordon Brown.
He has specialised in business and finance over a long career, writing on economics, banking, capital markets and regulatory affairs. for Barron’s, Dow Jones, Institutional Investor, Euromoney, International Herald Tribune and Bloomberg and has also had spells at America Online, United Communications Group and Newsdesk Media. Delamaide has published three books - a financial thriller. Gold and two books on economics and business Debt Shock and The New Superregions of Europe – and is working on an historical thriller about Deutsche Bank and the building of the Baghdad Railway.
His books include The Penguin History of Modern China, Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost; Dealing with the Dragon: A Year in the New Hong Kong; Seventy Wonders of China; Dragon Throne; and Alliance: How Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another. His latest book, Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today, How it Got There and Where it is Heading will be released in March 2012. He was made Commander of the British Empire in 2000 and a knight of the French Order of Merit in 1991.
As US Editor, New York correspondent and Frankfurt correspondent for the Financial Times between 1976 and 1990, he covered some of the major landmarks of the post-war economic landscape. A graduate in economics of Cambridge University, he started his career as economist and stock analyst at Prudential Assurance. Fleming has also worked for Evening Standard, The Guardian, Institutional Investor and New Statesman. Between 2003-2008, based in Brussels, he wrote on international economic policy issues for European Voice, the Brussels-focused weekly publication owned by The Economist.
James was educated at Cambridge University and was a Fellow of Peterhouse before coming to the US in 1986. His books include: The German Slump: Politics and Economics 1924‑1936, International Monetary Cooperation since Bretton Woods, Monetary and Fiscal Unification in Nineteenth Century Germany, The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression, The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews, Europe Reborn: A History 1914-2000, Family Capitalism, The Roman Predicament and The Creation and Destruction of Value. In 2004 James was awarded the first Helmut Schmidt Prize for Transatlantic Economic History, and in 2005 the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Writing on Economics. He is working on an official history of European economic and monetary union.
During the 1990s, he was a journalist on the Financial Times. He was a reporter and presenter of many radio and television programmes for the BBC. He holds a BA in Social Sciences, an MA in International economics and economic development and an MBA (international business and marketing). Kibazo is an Associate Fellow on The Africa Programme at Chatham House, a committee member of the Centre for the study of African Economies at the University of Oxford, The Royal African Society, London, and the Caine Prize for African Literature. He is on the judging panel of the CNN Africa Journalist of the Year award.
After taking his degree at Oxford University, he joined Deloitte and qualified as a chartered accountant. He is a former financial editor of The Economist in 1974, and member of the British Foreign Office policy planning staff in 1980. A former member of the London Stock Exchange’s quality of markets advisory committee and chairman of Pensions and Investment Research Consultants (PIRC), Plender served on the UK Company Law Review steering group. He is a member of a private sector advisory group on corporate governance created by the World Bank and the OECD. His books include That’s The Way The Money Goes, The Square Mile, A Stake In The Future, and Going Off The Rails - Global Capital And The Crisis Of Legitimacy. |
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William Keegan, senior economics commentator at The Observer, has been analysing government and central banking performance for several decades. He was previously with the Bank of England’s Economic Intelligence Department and before that was Economics Correspondent of the Financial Times.
Darrell Delamaide is a writer and editor based in Washington, who has written about central banking and the international political economy for more than 30 years. He keeps an especially close eye on the policies of the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve Board through a weekly column for US-based MarketWatch. He studied philosophy and literature at St. Louis University and the University of Munich (Fulbright Scholarship) and went on to obtain a master’s degree at Columbia University’s School of International Affairs.
Jonathan Fenby, an international political and economic expert with a particular focus on China and France, is a founder and Director of China Research at the analytical service Trusted Sources.
Stewart Fleming is Research Visitor at the London School of Economics Business History Unit. He has written extensively on international monetary and economic policy since the 1970s, combining coverage of day-to-day developments during the credit crisis with analysis of longer-term issues such as the decline of the dollar and the rise of emerging economies. He pays particularly close attention to comparative analysis of the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Board.
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Marie Curie Professor at the European University Institute, Florence. One of the foremost scholars on international money and economics, he has lectured, written and taught widely on the history and practice of central banks and official monetary institutions.
Joel Kibazo, a former diplomat and journalist, is the founding partner of JK Asssociates, a London based public affairs consultancy focused on Africa. He was previously official Spokesperson and Director of Communications and Public Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat for six years.
John Plender has been senior editorial writer at the Financial Times since 1981 and director (since 2002) of UK real estate company Qintain, which he chaired from 2007 to 2009. He chairs the advisory council of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation and is on the advisory board of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.