Ian Fraser is an award-winning journalist, commentator and broadcaster. His reports on turmoil in the City of London have been published by The Sunday Times, Financial Times,  BBC News, Dow Jones, Thomson Reuters, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Independent on Sunday, the Herald, Sunday Herald, Financial News, Hemscott, Morningstar and Citywire — and cited by news agencies worldwide.

Since March 2009 he has been involved with several BBC programmes about the financial crisis, including a File on 4 documentary about an alleged fraud at HBOS. He is currently researching and writing a BBC television docudrama about the rise and fall of ex-RBS chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin.

He is consulting editor and blogger on Bloomsbury Publishing’s QFINANCE and contributor to the annual Financial Times’ Scotland supplement [PDF]. He contributed to Making Good Society’s Tomorrow’s Civil Economy [PDF], part of an inquiry into the future of civil society in the UK and Ireland.

For a selection of Ian Fraser’s Sunday Herald articles, written as the financial crisis unfolded in September to October 2008, click here.

Ian writes features and analysis on business, finance, politics and economics for titles including The Economist, Financial Times, Sunday Times, Financial News, European Venture Capital Journal, Accountancy, Scottish Business Insider and CA Magazine. He has focused on the ethics of accountancy for the Financial Times and private equity in China for Thomson Reuters. He writes on fund management for FTfm and Financial News.

He is external member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland’s Future of Assurance working group and a judge on the Scottish Legal Awards. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Stirling, where he teaches on the UK’s first MSc in financial journalism, a course he helped to launch in September 2009.

In addition to mainstream journalism, Ian occasionally writes or has written for companies including Baillie Gifford, Centrica Energy, Co-operative Group, Deloitte, Finmeccanica, KPMG, PwC and Standard Life. He also does media-training and occasional consultancy work.

From March to August 2009 he was acting business editor, Scotland, of The Sunday Times.

After 12 years working in London and Paris, Ian returned to Scotland to help launch the Sunday Herald in February 1999. Appointed by founding editor Andrew Jaspan, he was financial editor until March 2006, when he left the Sunday Herald to work  as a freelance journalist, editor and consultant.

During the 1990s, Fraser had senior editorial roles Director and EuroBusiness magazines and edited internal magazines for Unilever. In the early to mid-1990s, he worked as a freelance journalist and travel writer, based mainly in London, contributing to titles including Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Independent on Sunday, The Guardian, The Observer, European, Scotsman and GQ.

Ian speaks fluent French and graduated M.A. (honours) in English from the University of St Andrews. He is member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists, the world’s oldest professional body for journalists. To view Ian’s work on journalisted click here.