David Smith is Economics Editor of The Sunday Times, and the paper's Assistant Editor and Policy Advisor, and a regular contributor to CBI's Business Voice. Amongst the first to predict a V-shaped recovery, he was careful to say that it would take time to become discernible.

A widely respected economics commentator, David is the author of several books, including From Boom to Bust, Will Europe Work?, The Age of Instability, and The Dragon and the Elephant: China, India and the New World Order. His most recent work, Free Lunch, is a guide to economics for the lay-person now that it seems essential we all understand the subject.

Before moving to the nation’s most widely read Sunday broadsheet, David worked for The Times and Financial Weekly - as well as the Henley Centre for Forecasting and Lloyds Bank. He has won a number of prizes, including the Harold Wincott Award for Financial Journalist of the Year.