Romesh Vaitilingam MBE is an economics writer, communications consultant and Editor-in-Chief of the Economics Observatory. He is also a Policy Fellow at The Productivity Institute and a member of the editorial board of VoxEU.

He has written extensively on economics, finance, business and public policy and is the author of several books, including The Financial Times Guide to Using the Financial Pages. Over the course of his career, he has worked with organisations including the Centre for Economic Policy Research, the European Economic Association and the Royal Economic Society, and has advised government agencies and international institutions including the European Central Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to economic and social science.