Ashton James

BIOJames Ashton is a business writer, commentator and consultant. His journalism appears regularly in the Evening Standard and the Sunday Telegraph (where he wrote the Questor column), and he contributes CEO interviews for the Mail on Sunday, The Times (London) and the Telegraph. He was City Editor and Executive Editor of the Evening Standard and Independent and before that City Editor of the Sunday Times (London). He is currently CEO of the Quoted Companies Alliance, championing the UKs 1000+ small and mid-sized companies whose shares are publicly traded. He also runs Oscars Book Prize, a competition to find the best pre-school book of the year.