Chris Giles is best known for holding economic claims up to the light and checking whether they survive contact with the numbers.

As Economics Editor at the Financial Times, Chris sits at the centre of global economic debate, scrutinising fiscal policy, public spending, inflation, productivity, and growth. His work is defined by precision: interrogating assumptions, testing evidence, and exposing where political confidence runs ahead of economic reality.

What distinguishes Chris is discipline. He is less interested in grand theory than in what the data actually says, and where it is being misused, oversimplified, or selectively presented. He examines how statistics are framed, how forecasts are sold, and why policy debates often ignore inconvenient arithmetic.

For board-level audiences, his value lies in calibration. Chris helps leaders understand what is known, what is uncertain, and what is simply asserted too confidently. He brings clarity to moments when economic debate becomes noisy, polarised, or driven by narrative rather than evidence.