David Marsh

David Marsh CBE is a British financial specialist, business consultant and writer on political, economic and monetary issues. He is chairman of Germany-headquartered management consultancy SCCO International and co-chairman of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) that links central banks, sovereign funds and private sector financial groups. OMFIF is Co-chaired by David and Michael Lafferty of the Lafferty Group. Marsh is chairman of the advisory board of independent investment bank London & Oxford Capital Markets and a board member of Henderson Eurotrust plc.
· He worked for the Financial Times between 1978 and 1995, including in France and Germany, becoming European editor. Previously he worked for City merchant bank Robert Fleming, corporate finance boutique Hawkpoint and German management consultancy Droege. He started his career at Reuters in 1973 after studying chemistry atOxford University.
· David Marsh is deputy chairman of German-British Forum, advisory board member of Centre for European Reform, board member of British Chamber of Commerce in Germany and honorary professor at the University of Birmingham. He was made Commander of the British Empire in 2000 and was awarded the German Order of Merit(Bundesverdienstkreuz) in 2003.
· Marsh has written four books: 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).[1] This has been updated in a new 2011 edition The Euro – The Battle for the New Global Currency which provides a comprehensive survey of the credit crisis that swept through the Euro area in 2010-11 and concludes that monetary union can survive only if it become a less amibitious grouping with fewer and more homogeneous members. “The battle to maintain the Euro as it was originally conceived has been lost. The new task will be to safeguard what is to come.”
· He is a frequent media commentator and regularly takes part in lectures, seminars and panel discussions around the world.
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