Alex Brummer is an English economics commentator, working as a journalist, editor, and author. He has been the City Editor of the Daily Mail since May 2000, where he writes a daily column on economics and finance. He was the Financial Editor of The Guardian between 1990 and 1999. He is a regular contributor to The Jewish Chronicle, writing extensively on business, the media, the Holocaust, and Middle East policy. Brummer also writes "The Money" article for the New Statesman and is a member of the editorial advisory board of Jewish Renaissance magazine. He is a Vice-President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
Career
Born in Brighton, he has a degree in economics and politics from the University of Southampton and an MBA from Bradford University Management Centre. Brummer began his career at J. Walter Thompson and Haymarket Publishing between 1970 and 1972. He then joined The Guardian as the Financial Correspondent. He was the main reporter on the fringe banking crisis of 1973/4 and the 1976 sterling crisis. In 1979, he became the US Financial and Washington Correspondent for The Guardian. He covered the 1980, 1984, and 1988 US presidential elections for the newspaper. His work in this area earned him the 1989 Overseas Press Club award for the best foreign correspondent in the US. Brummer then took up positions as a Foreign Editor and Financial Editor, and completed his twenty-six-year tenure at The Guardian as Associate Editor. He worked as Consultant Editor for the Financial Mail on Sunday between 1999 and 2000 and was voted Financial Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. In 2000, he became the City Editor of the Daily Mail. Brummer covered the 2003 Iraq War for the Daily Mail from Washington, D.C., and led the newspaper's coverage on the 2007 run on Northern Rock, collapse of Lehman Brothers, and subsequent credit crunch. On 4 February 2009, Brummer appeared as a witness at the House ofCommons Treasury Select Committee, along with Robert Peston, Lionel Barber, Simon Jenkins, and Jeff Randall to answer questions on the role of the media in financial stability and "whether financial journalists should operate under any form of reporting restrictions during banking crises".
Honours
In 2014 Brummer was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of the University by Bradford University.
Books
James Hanson: a Biography
Arnold Weinstock: The Life and Times of Britain's Premier Industrialist.
The Crunch: The Scandals of Northern Rock and the Looming Credit Crisis.
The Crunch: How Greed and Incompetence Sparked the Credit Crisis.
The Great Pensions Robbery: How the politicians betrayed retirement.
Britain for Sale: British Companies in Foreign Hands – the Hidden Threat to Our Economy.
Bad Banks: Greed, Incompetence and the Next Global Crisis.
