Award winning UK based freelance journalist who specialises in UK, European, and US finance, politics, and economics, and Middle East politics and economics. Former Scottish business columnist and correspondent with The Sunday Times (of London).Member of the International Advisory Board of Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University. Winner of the Scottish Business Journalist of the year award, and the IBP Journalist of the Year award for undercover investigations into conditions on London's building sites.My writing on Middle East politics and economics has been quoted (and credited) by the late Robert Fisk in articles he has written for The Independent. My articles have also been cited in academic works and published in a number of books on Middle East politics.As a former managing editor of The Daily Star, business editor of The Scotsman newspaper, producer with BBC Television’s World Business Report, and news editor of London financial daily newspaper City AM, I bring a wealth of innovation and experience to running daily news operations while meeting the tight deadline requirements of online and daily print journalism. This includes writing, editing copy, commissioning articles, and managing news teams, including stringers and reporters whose first language is not always English.
Listed skills include Journalism, Editing, Writing, Freelance Writing, and 15 others.
