Simon Nixon is European editor of the Wall Street Journal’s influential Heard on the Street column where he writes extensively on the banking crisis and the global economy. Before that, he was executive editor of financial website breakingviews.com, City editor of The Week and a founder editor of Moneyweek. He has contributed to a number of newspapers and magazines including The Spectator, Prospect and The Tablet. For the first five years of his career he worked in investment banking. He is a graduate of Cambridge University, where he gained a first class degree in History. He is also the author of The Credit Crunch: How safe is your money? (Pocket Issue, 2008).