Hamish McRae

Hamish McRae is one of Europe’s foremost speakers on future trends in economics, technology, business and society. He is the main economic commentator for “i” newspaper, and City columnist for the Mail on Sunday. He is the author of the acclaimed work on the future, The World in 2020 – Power, Culture and Prosperity. The book was a best-seller and propelled Hamish to be one of the most sought-after speakers and commentators on future trends. His follow-up book, The World in 2050 – How to Think About the Future, was published in 2022.

In it Hamish examines how complex forces of change – demography, the environment, finance, technology and ideas about governance – will affect our global society. Hamish’s other books include Capital City – London as a Financial Centre, coauthored with Frances Cairncross, Wake-up Japan, co-authored with Tadashi Nakamae, and What Works: Success in Stressful Times, which was long-listed for the Business Book of the Year at the FT/Goldman Sachs Awards in New York in 2010.

His awards include both junior and senior Harold Wincott awards, the David Watt Prize for outstanding political journalism, and he was the Business and Finance Journalist of the Year in the 2006 British Press Awards. As an economic journalist, Hamish McRae was editor of Euromoney and Financial Editor of The Guardian before moving to The Independent.

Hamish McRae was previously an Adjunct Professor at Trinity College, Dublin, and has been a Visiting Professor at the School of Management at Lancaster University, a council member of the Royal Economic Society, and a Governor of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.