Duncan Campbell-Smith is a former Financial Times and Economist journalist. He has worked in the City and with McKinsey, and is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. His previous books include Follow the Money: The Audit Commission; Public Money and the Management of Public Services, 1983-2008 and Masters of the Post: The Authorized History of the Royal Mail, which won the Wadsworth Prize as Business History Book of the Year in 2011.