Martin Vander Weyer

Martin Vander Weyer is a British financial journalist, business editor of The Spectator, and a leading figure within the British-American Project.

A Yorkshireman (he lives in Thirsk and Malton[1]) of Flemish ancestry, he is the son of Derek Vander Weyer, who was a prominent London banker with Barclays, where he rose to Deputy Chairman. Martin Vander Weyer himself spent 15 years in investment banking, working for Schroders and Barclays in London, Brussels and the Far East, before turning to writing.

As a journalist, Vander Weyer is known for writing extensively about business, economics and financial morality in a distinctively accessible and entertaining style. He is the business editor and “Any Other Business” columnist of The Spectator as well as editor of the monthly Spectator Business. He is also a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and other national publications.[2] He was previously City editor of The Week.[3]

He is the author of Falling Eagle: the Decline of Barclays Bank (2000), and Closing Balances: Business Obituaries from the Daily Telegraph (2006).[4] He wrote a play, "Talent Night", performed at his local theatre.

In August 2015, it was announced that Vander Weyer will take up the role of Patron to the York Union at the University of York.[5]

Bibliography
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Books
  • Vander Weyer, Martin (2000). Falling Eagle: the Decline of Barclays Bank. London: Phoenix.

Articles
  • Vander Weyer, Martin (4 January 2014). "Making the best of an imperfect world : a vision of the future from my hospital bed". Any Other Business. The Spectator. 324 (9671): 19.
gollark: Yes, I - as someone who does not write programming languages as a hobby (except for that one calculator) - will definitely be able to read all the compiler code to figure out how to use it.
gollark: I can see a website mentioned, but it's just a blank page in an iframe.
gollark: Where's the documentation?
gollark: I actually found several good-looking ones:https://github.com/zardyh/amulethttps://github.com/kindl/Hypatiahttps://github.com/ptol/oczorI mean good-looking as in "will hopefully make my stuff less unreliable".
gollark: So, apart from the fact that for some reason some slots don't actually fill themselves when crafting (why?!) it mostly works.

References
  1. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/martin-vander-weyer/2014/02/how-we-fired-anne-mcintosh/
  2. "Innovation Edge speaker profile". Archived from the original on August 20, 2008. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
  3. "London Stock Exchange author page". Archived from the original on June 28, 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
  4. Vander Weyer, Martin (2000). "Globalism vs. Nationalism vs. E-business: The World Debates". Strategy+Business. New York: Booz & Company. ISSN 1083-706X.
  5. "Spectator business editor announced Patron of York Union". University of York. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2015.


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