Adam Shaw

Adam provides business news on Radio 4’s Today programme and formerly presented BBC’s Working Lunch. He is a particularly astute and popular commentator on the stock market, believing that business is as much about emotions and turbulence as quarterly profit margins.

Adam was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company before moving across to broadcasting with the BBC and Japanese television. He reported for Watchdog and That’s Life before switching to Business Breakfast.

Away from the Square Mile, Adam presented Tutus and Tiaras - picturing a year in the life of the English National Ballet. He also co-presented Cashing In, the money roadshow aiming to
save a town’s residents one million pounds in a single day.

Adam has published Political Rhubarb and three guides to personal finance, including Money & How To Make More Of It. He writes for the Financial Mail on Sunday, and has been named Broadcaster and Financial Personality of the Year.

Janet Henry

Janet Henry was appointed as HSBC’s Chief European Economist in April 2007.

She joined HSBC in 1996 in Hong Kong where she worked as an Asian Economist in the run-up to, and aftermath of, the Asian crisis before moving back to London in 1999 where she was a Global Economist for eight years.

Janet’s career began at the Economist Intelligence Unit where she worked as an Asian economist for over four years in London and Hong Kong after graduating with an Economics degree from University College London.