David ShirreffDAVID SHIRREFF has been reporting on finance since the early 1980s when he joined Euromoney. In 1987 he co-founded Risk magazine. From 2001 to 2014 he worked for The Economist in London, Frankfurt and Berlin reporting on business, finance and Europan monetary union. In 2004 he published Dealing with Financial Risk (Profile Books) and in 2009 wrote his first musical, Broke Britannia!, lampooning Britain’s efforts to solve its financial crisis. Two more followed: EuroCrash! (2011) – a hypothetical euro meltdown wrapped in a fairytale; and Barack and the Beanstalk (2013) – tomfoolery about the near-bankruptcy of America (all in collaboration with composer Russell Sarre). He has two sons and lives in London. Read More Read Less