Allister Heath is Editor of City A.M., the daily business newspaper distributed in and around London and digitally. Under his editorship, the paper, which has now grown to an audited print circulation of 100,000 copies per day, has become an influential voice in London's business community. Heath's trenchant daily column in the paper covers economics, finance, politics, geopolitics, business strategy and other subjects and has gathered an increasingly large following.
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News
Deputy editor David Hellier has been at City A.M. since October 2005 when he joined as news editor from the Independent. David has worked at a host of papers, including the Daily and Sunday Express and the Evening Standard.
David is City A.M.'s Managing Editor and Head of News. He is responsible for setting the paper's news agenda, and also manages resources across of all the editorial departments. Prior to his existing role, he was Political Editor covering the 2010 general election. He joined City A.M. in 2008 from The Business magazine, where he covered media and...
Stephan is CEO and Co-Founder of YouGov plc. Previously, Stephan was an educationist and writer. He was founding Principal of Landmark West Preparatory School in Los Angeles and he has written extensively on education policy for a variety of national newspapers. Immediately prior to co-founding YouGov, he was a political campaign manager. He has...
Each day we give you the best of the brokers - a look into what actions stock brokers are taking. Following their actions and broker tips.
Find out who is is on the move in the City with our comprehensive guide to senior appointment in the Square
Mile in all sectors, from financial to legal services.
David Wootton is the 684th Lord Mayor of the City of London, whose one-year term began on 11 November 2011. He was elected as Common Councilman for the Ward of Farringdon Within in 2002 and as Alderman for the Ward of Langbourn in 2005. In 2009 he was elected as one of two Sheriffs of the City of London (for a term of one year).
A weekly column from commentators on the highly influential and respected CNBC network. The pieces focus on world events and their impacts on world markets and economies.
An analysis of the performance of companies. Our experts trawl through results and give informed views
on stock values, trading conditions and strategy.
Lifestyle
Zoe Strimpel is Lifestyle Editor of City A.M. where she has worked since 2008. She oversees the paper's coverage of food & drink, books, fashion, beauty, health, interviews, arts, books and property. She is also the author of What the Hell Is He Thinking? All the Questions You've Ever Asked About Men Answered (Penguin).
Timothy Barber has been a Lifestyle Writer at City A.M. since 2007. He writes across all sections, with a focus on arts, men's fashion and watches.
Ryan Borroff is City A.M.'s motoring columnist, and has been testing cars for the newspaper since 2009. A writer and design consultant with more than 20 years' experience, he has spent most of his working life writing about cars and the industry that makes them. As a specialist in car design, he founded the first car magazine to be dedicated to...
City Dad is an anonymous column written in an episodic format that takes us through the trials and tribulations, the tensions and joys, of a hard-working London father and banker. We can't reveal any more, apart from to say that it's penned by someone with experience at a tip-top City bank firm - and who is also a father.
Steve is Deputy Lifestyle Editor at City A.M. His role includes writing restaurant, film and gadget reviews and editing the men's fashion pages. He also covers consumer technology across the paper and contributes opinion pieces to the comment section. His weekly Geek Speak column appears on Tuesdays. He is the winner of several awards including...
Tim Badham is the founder and Managing Director of Innerplace (www.innerplace.co.uk), a private concierge service that specialises in access to the most desirable entertainment and hospitality in London and internationally. Tim is an ex Merrill Lynch Banker who's previous City career included Northern Trust and Prudential Portfolio Managers. Tim...
Nick Booth has been a veteran of the mobile industry since the days when only bricklayers were strong enough to carry a mobile.
As a technical consultant he helped the Met Police with its first mobile enabled project and advised on the installation of mobiles and laptops in every tow truck. He’s regretted that ever since.
As a telecoms expert he...
Laura Williams is a former couch potato who has revamped her lifestyle to become a highly successful personal trainer. As someone who used to smoke, drink, and eat chocolate for breakfast (she doesn't do any of this now, btw), Laura believes she's in a good position to take exercise to the British public; a kind of stepping stone between the Lycra...
Clare Rous & Kara Iland met originally as international arbitration lawyers at Clifford Chance. They left in 2007 to set up ROUS ILAND, a private members' fashion boutique for busy modern women. Clare & Kara source exclusive clothing labels from Copenhagen to São Paulo, London to Sydney. With Clare & Kara always on hand to offer...
Wealth Management
Director of Global Dealing Operations at GFT
Martin Slaney is Director of Global Dealing Operations at GFT in London, and has been with the company since having joined as a founder in 2006. Slaney's career in financial derivatives began in 1995 at City Index, where after working in the back-office he was fortunate enough to be recruited to help...
Director of Global Research & Analysis
Boris Schlossberg began his Wall Street trading career more than 20 years ago at Drexel Burnham Lambert. There, he traded nearly every type of financial product on the market in the U.S., from equities and options to stock index futures and foreign exchange. His innate ability to analyze market...
Derivatives Market Strategist at GFT.
David Morrison has worked in financial markets for over 25 years. He has been instrumental in setting up two separate companies, which provided trading facilities for retail customers. He has managed trading desks and has implemented and run successful risk-management strategies. He has written numerous...
Living
Andrew Dunning launched APD Interiors in 2004 with one aim: to allow people to have their dream home for an affordable price. Since then his business has gone from strength to strength, he has been featured in the Evening Standard and writes a daily blog offering design advice with the occasional celebrity Interiors Q & A's.
Martin Bikhit is Managing Director of central London estate agents and block managers, Kay & Co, which specialises in the sale, rental and management of property throughout Marylebone, Mayfair, Regent's Park, Hyde Park, Bayswater, Paddington, Fitzrovia and the West End. Martin has worked in residential property since 1997 and acts for major...
Tim Hassell is Director of Draker Lettings, a lettings-only firm which he set up in 2010, following 14 years' experience working in the Central London lettings industry. The firm specialises in Belgravia, Chelsea, Kensington and Pimlico.
Ed Mead has been an estate agent in central London for 30 years. He's a regular commentator in the print media, on radio and TV, where he is known for his straight-talking assessments of the property market. He sits on the Board of The Property Ombudsman and is a director of Douglas & Gordon.
Camilla Dell is Managing Partner and founder of Black Brick Property Solutions LLP, a leading residential property buying agency operating in London and the South East of England. Black Brick acts solely on behalf of buyers to ensure they end up finding the right property for them and acquire it on the best possible terms.
Sport
Sam Torrance OBE is a multiple Ryder Cup-winning golfer and media commentator. He has won 21 European Tour titles in a career spanning 40 years and famously sank the putt that clinched victory for Europe in the 1985 Ryder Cup. A player on the team on eight occasions, winning four times, he also led the side to victory as captain in 2002. Since...
Trevor Steven is a former England footballer who played in both the 1986 and 1990 World Cups and the 1988 European Championships. A tricky winger who helped Everton capture the league, FA Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup in the mid-80s, Steven went onto win top-flight titles in France, with Marseille, and Scotland, with Rangers. He now works as a...
Andy Lloyd is a former England Test cricketer. An opening batsman, he captained Warwickshire in the late 80s and early 90s, leading them to success in the 1989 NatWest Trophy. He made a total of 17,211 first-class runs, including 29 centuries, and later enjoyed a spell as chairman of Warwickshire.
Forum
Marc Sidwell is business features editor for City A.M. and the author with Anthony O'Hear of The School of Freedom (Imprint Academic, 2009).
Jamie Whyte is a management consultant, a senior fellow of the Cobden Centre and author of Crimes Against Logic (McGraw Hill, 2004).
Anthony J. Evans is associate professor of economics at ESCP Europe Business School in London, and Fulbright scholar-in-residence at San Jose State University. His website is www.anthonyjevans.com.
Mark Boleat has been Chairman of the Policy and Resources Committee of the City of London since May 2012, leading on strategy, resource allocation and engagement with legislators and regulators in the UK, Europe and across the world on policy issues affecting London as a key international financial centre. This also involves taking a lead on...

