Charles Dumas has extensive experience as a business economist and financial markets professional. In the 1980s he was Head of Research for JP Morgan in London. In the mid-to-late 1970s he was Director of European Economics for General Motors. Before that he worked on tax reform for the Conservative Party and the UK Government. He was a Managing Director in JP Morgan's New York M&A department from 1988 to 1992 and has worked in its capital markets group in New York and London. Charles's work covers all international economies and his particular focus is the US and China. He wrote his first book, The Bill from the China Shop, in 2006, together with Diana Choyleva. The follow up China and America - A Time of Reckoning, was published in Spring 2008.

Diana Choyleva joined the World Service at Lombard Street Research in 2000 after graduating with a Master's degree in Economics at the University of Warwick. She was promoted to Head of the UK Service in February 2005. Diana's work covers global issues, with a particular focus on the UK and Chinese economies. In February 2006 she published her first book "The Bill from the China Shop", co-authored with Charles Dumas. She has also specialized in research on Japan and Russia and her work on estimating potential output and output gaps is the basis for producing LSR's proprietary global leading indicators. Diana's research has been extensively quoted in the international press and she gives regular TV and radio interviews.

Brian Reading founded the World Service at Lombard Street Research in 1991 together with Gabriel Stein. He was economics advisor to the former Prime Minister Edward Heath and was the first Economics Editor of the Economist magazine, before moving into consultancy in the late 1970s. He has published thousands of newspaper articles and has written two books on Japan, one of which Japan The Coming Collapse, is regarded as the seminal work on the subject. Brian now works with us from his base in New Zealand and  embarks on worldwide trips to visit clients. He has his own diary within our website entitled "Required Reading" where he makes regular comment on topical issues.

Gabriel Stein graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics with an MSc in 1980. In 1981 he worked for the International Relations Department of the Israeli Ministry of Finance. From 1982 to 1991 he ran his own economics and public affairs consultancy, Stein Brothers, first in Stockholm and from 1990 in London. He joined Lombard Street Research in 1991 and together with Brian Reading set up the World Service. He became a director in 1995. On behalf of the Adam Smith Institute he calculates Tax Freedom Day for the UK. He has written a dictionary of economic and financial terms and a short biography of Vilfredo Pareto. His research follows all global trends and his current areas of specialisation are the Eurozone, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Mexico, Australia and also the US.

Chris Turner joined Lombard Street Research in June 2006 as Head of Strategy. He has extensive experience as an investment strategist and portfolio manager, spanning currency, equity and fixed income markets. His work concentrates on developing and monitoring investment strategies based on themes within our economic research. He spent twenty years in financial markets on both the buy and sell side, including six years at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers as a manager of global equity and tactical asset allocation portfolios and a further three years co-founding and running a global macro hedge fund. Between 1989 and 1997 he worked for Barclays de Zoete Wedd, spending three years in Tokyo as Senior Money and Bond Market Economist and then five years in London as Chief Currency Strategist, when he appeared in the top 3 of the annual Thomson Extel Survey for 4 consecutive years. Chris has a BA in Economics from Cambridge University and began his career as an economist with the Bank of England.

Michael Taylor joined Lombard Street Research as Senior Economist in December 2005 after five years at Merrill Lynch as a Eurozone economist and equity strategist. Prior to this he had another four-year stint at Lombard Street Research working with Tim Congdon. His early working career was as economic adviser at the Department of Trade and Industry and as Chief Economist at the Institute of Directors. His first degree was in banking and finance from City University and he gained a Masters from the London School of Economics. Michael now concentrates on the UK economy, commodities and France.

Maya Bhandari joined Lombard Street Research in May 2005. She previously worked as an analyst with HSBC Investment Bank and as an economist at the European Commission. Maya's work at LSR currently encompasses the US economy, Central and Eastern Europe, Brazil, India and France. She has also worked extensively on the UK economy during her time at LSR. Maya holds an MPhil in International Relations from Cambridge University and first class honours in Economics from the University of Edinburgh.

Jamie Dannhauser graduated from Cambridge University in 2006 with first class honours in both Economics and Management Studies. During his academic career his focus was on international macroeconomics, in particular the causes and consequences of the US trade deficit. He held internships at Conservative Central Office working with Sir Malcolm Rifkind on taxation issues and the Department for Work and Pensions where he researched UK immigration issues resulting from the recent EU accession. Jamie joined the LSR team of economists in October 2006 and specialises in the UK economy, Italy, Canada and Korea.