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Hamish McRae
c/o London Speakers Bureau
London House, 271 King Street
London, W6 9LZ England T: +44 20 8748 9595 F: +44 20 8741 8273
Hamish McRae is one of Europe's leading futurists. He is the author of the acclaimed work on the future, The World in 2020: Power, Culture and Prosperity, first published in 1994 and translated into more than a dozen languages, including Japanese, Korean and Chinese (two editions). Since the publication of The World in 2020, he has been in demand world-wide as a speaker.
Hamish is also the principal economic commentator for The Independent, a columnist for Fortune, and a visiting professor at the School of Management of UMIST. His other books include Capital City - London as a Financial Centre, co-authored with Frances Cairncross, and Wake-up Japan, co-authored with Tadashi Nakamae.
Awards include Financial Journalist of the Year in 1979, a special merit award in the first Amex Bank essay awards in 1987, and in 1996 Columnist of the Year in the Periodical Publisher's Awards.
He is a director of Gartmore British Income and Growth Trust and of Net Profit Publications. Net Profit Publications, which he helped found, is a specialist electronic publisher of information about the way the Internet is changing the business world, publishing newsletters, books and reports on the subject. Its clients include BT, Daimler-Benz, ABM-Amro Bank, National Westminster Bank, and Lloyds Bank.
His current areas of work include the economies of East Asia and the impact of the Internet on the global economy. Wake-up Japan, published in Japanese in October 1999 by Nihon Keisai Shimbun, argues that Japan can best revitalise its economy by adopting structural reforms, and that a programme of reform is vital to the whole East Asian region.
He is currently working on a new book on the way the Internet is changing not just the business world, but also entire societies.
Hamish McRae was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh and took an honours degree in Economics and Political Science at Trinity College, Dublin. He was deputy editor of The Banker and editor of Euromoney before becoming financial editor of The Guardian in 1975. In 1989 he moved to The Independent where he is now associate editor.
Hamish McRae