Brian Reading

Mr. Brian Reading is an Economist at Lombard Street Research Ltd.
He founded the World Service at Lombard Street Research in 1991 together with Gabriel Stein.
He was economics advisor to the former Prime Minister Edward Heath and was the first Economics Editor of the Economist magazine, before moving into consultancy in the late 1970s.
He has published thousands of newspaper articles and has written two books on Japan, one of which Japan The Coming Collapse, is regarded as the seminal work on the subject.
Brian publishes occasional reports and has his own diary within our website entitled "Required Reading" where he makes regular comment on topical issues.