Financial Times “must read” author and former Bloomberg Editor-at-Large, Gavin Serkin helps inform policy, investment and editorial perspective at many of the world’s most critical institutions. His consultancy, Frontier Intelligence, has advised the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the World Bank’s IFC, Singapore’s President and Prime Minister, and multiple central banks, stock exchanges and global financial centres.

A prominent finance writer and commentator, Gavin’s debut book Frontier (Bloomberg/Wiley) was highly acclaimed in The Wall Street Journal and described by the FT as a “must read for investors wanting to find out how valuation in emerging markets really works.” His latest book, Chain Reaction (Macmillan), was praised by the BBC’s Tim Harford as “the perfect way to step beyond the clichés about blockchain and explore the full range of possibilities in a rich and compelling way.”

As Bloomberg’s Global Editor-at-Large for Emerging Markets until 2015, Gavin’s work leading his team of journalists to uncover the derivatives that triggered the 2008 financial crisis won him the Society of American Business Editors & Writers’ Best in Business Award and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Deadline Club Award. Gavin writes columns for several leading journals, and is a frequent speaker and
guest lecturer on development economics, finance and technology.