Douglas McWilliams is currently Deputy Chairman of Cebr, the well known UK economics consultancy which he founded. He is also a member of the Advisory board of e-Propelled, one of the USA’s leading startups, which produces innovative electric motors for pumps and vehicles.

His book ‘The Flat White Economy’ (2015) topped the Amazon Business and Law Best Seller List and explains how the UK economy is becoming increasingly driven by the digital sector. His more recent book, The Inequality Paradox, was published by the Overlook Press in New York in November 2018 and was released in the UK in September 2019 and argues against the Piketty conclusion that increasing inequality is simply the result of exploitation – he points to the impact of technology and globalisation. He has also published Driving the Silk Road (whitefox) about his adventures driving a classic Bentley on the Peking Paris Endurance Rally in December 2019 and his impressions of the economies through which he drove.

He was the Gresham Professor of Commerce in 2013/14. His lectures on the economic impact of globalisation were widely followed.

Before founding Cebr in 1993, Douglas McWilliams was the Chief Economic Adviser at the CBI. He was also the Chief Economist of IBM UK. He specialises in forecasting and the technology sector.