Dharshini David

Award-winning broadcaster, economist and author Dharshini is the BBC’s Chief Economics Correspondent and presents programmes for Radio 4.

She worked for the Government Economic Service before being appointed HSBC Investment Bank’s Senior UK Economist. She swapped the trading floor for the BBC, to cover economics and present financial programmes in London, and then New York where she led analysis on Great Financial Crisis.

Dharshini has also presented flagship business and political programmes for Sky and sat on the consumer finance board of the financial regulator.

She rejoined the BBC initially as Business Presenter for Radio 4’s Today, and subsequently as Chief Economics Correspondent, leading agenda-setting coverage on the impact of Covid, the recent recession and change of government while holding policymakers to account. Her Analysis documentary for Radio 4 “Is Britain the Sick Man of Europe?” won the prestigious 2022 Wincott Prize for financial journalism, hailed by judges as “the BBC at its best”.

Dharshini is the author of “The Almighty Dollar” (2018) the best-selling guide to the global economy and Environomics (2024). She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge in 2024.