David Marsh (financial specialist)

David Wayne Marsh CBE (born 30 July 1952) is a British financial specialist, business consultant and writer on political, economic and monetary issues.

David Marsh
Born(1952-07-30)30 July 1952
Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materQueen's College Oxford
Websitewww.omfif.org

Career and education

Marsh was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex on 30 July 1952.[1] He started his career at Reuters in 1973 having graduated with a BA in chemistry from Queen's College Oxford. Between 1978 and 1995, he worked for the Financial Times newspaper in France and Germany, latterly as European Editor in London.

Following his journalism career, Marsh worked for City merchant bank Robert Fleming, corporate finance boutique Hawkpoint and German management consultancy Droege, where he built its UK subsidiary. He is former co-founder, chairman and deputy chairman of the German-British Forum as well as former Chairman of the Advisory Board of the London & Oxford Group.

Currently Marsh is a Senior Adviser to asset management company Soditic.[2] He is also a Board Member of Henderson Eurotrust, and the British Chamber of Commerce in Germany, and visiting professor at Sheffield University’s department of politics[3] and The Policy Institute at King's College London.[4][5]

In 2010, Marsh co-founded the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), where he serves as Chairman.

Marsh is a frequent commentator in Europe and the US, writing articles for The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch,[6] and German newspaper Handelsblatt.[7] He contributes occasionally to other media outlets that include Financial Times,[8] New York Times.[9]

Awards and honours

In 2000, Marsh was appointed as a Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to Anglo-German relations.[10] and was awarded the German Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) in 2003.

Publications

Marsh has written six books, with his three most recent books published by Yale University Press and OMFIF Press. His books have been translated into German, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

  • Germany – Rich, Bothered and Divided (1989)
  • The Bundesbank – The Bank that Rules Europe (1992)
  • Germany and Europe – The Crisis of Unity (1994)
  • The Euro – The Politics of the New Global Currency (2009)[11] – re-released in 2011 as The Battle for the New Global Currency.
  • Europe's Deadlock: How the Crisis Could Be Solved - And Why It Won't Happen (2013). Updated in 2016 as Europe's Deadlock: How the Crisis Could Be Solved - And Why It Still Won't Happen..[12][13]
  • Six Days in September (2017)

References
  1. "Marsh, David Wayne". Who's Who 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  2. "SCCO International - People - David Marsh". www.scco.com. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  3. "Visiting Professor - David Marsh". University of Sheffield. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  4. "David Marsh CBE Managing Director, OMFIF | German British Forum". www.gbf.com. Archived from the original on 10 September 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  5. "King's College London – Marsh, David". www.kcl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  6. "David Marsh - MarketWatch.com Topics". www.marketwatch.com. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  7. "Helmut-Schmidt-Interview: Wanted – political leadership in Europe". www.handelsblatt.com. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  8. Marsh, David; Simonian, Haig; Cramb, Gordon (10 November 2015). "Helmut Schmidt, German statesman, 1918-2015". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  9. Marsh, David (17 May 2010). "The Euro's Lost Promise". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  10. "No. 55710". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1999. p. 34.
  11. "The Euro by David Marsh - Yale University Press". yalebooks.co.uk. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  12. "Europe's Deadlock by David Marsh - Yale University Press". yalebooks.co.uk. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  13. "Marsh Book Launch". Retrieved 7 July 2016.
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