Ben is an experienced journalist, speaker and broadcaster who specialises in economics and current affairs. He is Policy and Analysis Correspondent at BBC Verify. Previously he was the Economics Editor of BBC Newsnight. ​ Ben was nominated for business journalist of the year at the 2015 British Journalism Awards and for business commentator of the year at the 2018 Comment Awards. He sits on the international advisory board of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI). He is also a member of the Society of Professional Economists. Ben's first book Chinese Whispers: Why everything you've heard about China is wrong was nominated for International Affairs Book of the Year at the Paddy Power Political Book Awards in 2014.