Dharshini David

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

She joined the Government Economic Service after reading Economics at Cambridge before becoming HSBC Investment Bank’s 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 the unfolding financial situation.

Dharshini also presented primetime business and political programmes for Sky. She sat on the consumer finance board of the financial regulator and has advised the boards of Tesco and Legal & General.

She rejoined the BBC in 2018, initially as Business Presenter for the Today programme. 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”.  As the BBC’s Chief Economics Correspondent, she holds policymakers to account while ensuring a focus on key issues including long term sickness, gender pay, sustainability and Brexit .

Dharshini is the author of “The Almighty Dollar” (2018) the best-selling guide to the global economy and Environomics (2024).