Dharshini David

Award-winning broadcaster, economist and author Dharshini is the BBC’s Deputy Economics Editor and presents programmes for Radio 4, including the flagship Today programme.

She is the author of “The Almighty Dollar” (2018), the guide to the global economy, which features on school and college curricula, and Environomics (2024). Dharshini is an Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge , and was awarded an OBE in the 2025 New Year Honours list for services to economics.

After reading Economics at Cambridge, Dharshini worked for Oxford Economics and 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 of the Financial Crisis.

Dharshini went on to present 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 impacts of Covid, the Ukraine War and change of government, holding policymakers to account. Her Analysis documentary for Radio 4 “Is Britain the Sick Man of Europe?” won the prestigious Wincott Prize for financial journalism , hailed by judges as “the BBC at its best”.