Alex Brummer

Alex Brummer (born 25 May 1949) is a British economics commentator, working as a journalist, editor, and author. He has been the City Editor of the Daily Mail (London) 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 (London), 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 the University of Bradford Management Centre. Brummer started his media 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.