David Mc Williams’ first book The Pope’s Children was the best selling Irish non-fiction book in 2006 and 2007, spending 52 consecutive weeks in the top five of the bestsellers. To date it has sold well over 100,000 copies. It has since become a successful three part documentary series, along with his second book, The Generation Game, which was also a bestseller in Ireland. Before moving into writing and broadcasting he spent ten years in banking- as an economist, investment banker and head of emerging markets research.

David writes two weekly opinion columns and is an avid blogger and tweeter. He has interviewed some of the most influential and thought provoking characters of our age, from Henry Kissinger to Mikhail Gorbachev, Paul Krugman and Hillary Clinton.

Passionate about politics, economics, people and culture, McWilliams speaks a number of languages and was made a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum at Davos in 2006.