Andrew Freeman has been a financial journalist for almost 20 years, 13 of them on The Economist, where he has held jobs as varied as Banking Editor, American Finance Editor and European Business Correspondent. He is currently Deputy Business Affairs Editor in charge of the weekly back-half three-page special report.

Before joining The Economist he wrote for the Financial Times. He worked for two years on Lex, the daily comment column. Prior to that he wrote about euromarkets and stockmarkets. He joined the FT after two years learning the ropes at euromoney, where he was deputy editor of Global Investor, a fund-management magazine.

Author of several books and papers, he co-authored Seeing Tomorrow: rewriting the rules of risk, published by Wiley & Co in 1998. He also wrote "The risk revolution", a special report and survey for the International Securities Markets Association that was published in 2000.