Hamish McRae

Hamish McRae is a London-based economic journalist. He is author of the acclaimed work on the future The World in 2020: Power, Culture and Prosperity first published in 1994 and translated into more than a dozen languages, including Japanese, Korean and Chinese (two editions). Since the publication of The World in 2020 he has been in demand world-wide as a speaker. He is also the principal economic commentator and associate editor of The Independent.

His other books include Capital City - London as a Financial Centre, co-authored with Frances Cairncross, and Wake-up Japan, co-authored with Tadashi Nakamae. Awards include Financial Journalist of the Year in 1979, a special merit award in the first Amex Bank essay awards in 1987, and in 1996 Columnist of the Year in the Periodical Publishers Awards. He is a director of The Income and Growth Trust.

His current areas of work include the economies of East Asia and the impact of the Internet on the global economy, and the pressure from global deflation. He is now working on a new book on global best practice.

He was educated at Fettes College and has an MA Economics and Political Science from Trinity College, Dublin. He was deputy editor of The Banker and editor of Euromoney before becoming financial editor of The Guardian in 1975. In 1989 he moved to The Independent where he is now associate editor.