Hamish McRae is one of Britain’s most respected financial journalists and commentators and one of Europe's foremost speaker on future trends in economics, business and society. Hamish McRae is an associate editor of The Independent. He was named Business and Finance Journalist of the Year 2006 at the British Press Awards. Hamish McRae is the chief economic commentator of The Independent and The Independent on Sunday newspapers. He is also the author of the acclaimed work on the future, The World in 2020: Power, Culture and Prosperity. Hamish's other books include Capital City - London as a Financial Centre, co-authored with Frances Cairncross, and Wake-up Japan, co-authored with Tadashi Nakamae. Hamish McRae has been a Visiting Professor at the School of Management at Lancaster University and was a council member of the Royal Economic Society. His most recent awards are the David Watt Prize for outstanding political journalism in 2005, the Business and Finance Journalist of the Year in the 2006 British Press Awards, and Communicator of the Year at the 2007 Business Journalist Awards. Hamish McRae is in demand around the world for his lucid insight into the current economic situation and how future trends are likely to affect business and governments. As a sought-after, world-wide speaker on future and business strategy, he demonstrates how changes in demography, inflation, globalization, societal values, government, technology, and natural resources contribute to the new competitive landscape and how they affect the future of the business world.