Iain Martin

Editor and Publisher, Reaction

Iain Martin is a journalist, author, entrepreneur and director of the London Defence Conference, the annual geopolitical gathering held at King's College London. He is director of Engelsberg Ideas for the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson foundation. His weekly column on politics is published by The Times and he is publisher and founder of Reaction. His two books on financial history are the award-winning “Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British Economy” (Simon and Schuster, 2013) and “Crash, Bang, Wallop: the inside story of Big Bang and the financial revolution that changed the world" (Sceptre, 2016). He lives in London.