Nick Kochan is a financial and political journalist based in London. He has written extensively on

financial Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and Academic discipline, discipline of money, currency, assets and Liability (financial accounting), liabilities. As a subject of study, is a field of Business administration, Business Admin ...

and

white collar crime The term "white-collar crime" refers to financially motivated, nonviolent or non-directly violent crime committed by individuals, businesses and government professionals. The crimes are believed to be committed by middle- or upper-class indivi ...

. He writes for UK newspapers and international magazines, and has written and co-written books. Kochan is also a lecturer and conference speaker on

financial crime Financial crime is crime committed against property, involving the unlawful conversion of the ownership of property (belonging to one person) to one's own personal use and benefit. Financial crimes may involve fraud (cheque fraud, credit card f ...

and

politics Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with decision-making, making decisions in social group, groups, or other forms of power (social and political), power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of Social sta ...

Early life and education

Kochan was educated at Magdalen College School in

Oxford Oxford () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town. The city is home to the University of Oxford, the List of oldest universities in continuou ...

, and at

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college has origins from 1869, with the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of all ...

, graduating in

Classics Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

and English in 1976.

Published works

* 2011, October: ''Corruption: The New Corporate Challenge'', (with Robin Goodyear) Published by Palgrave-Macmillan * 2008, November: ''What Happened, and other questions everyone is asking about the Credit Crunch'' (with Hugh Pym), Published by Old Street Publishing * 2006, December: ''The Middle East markets: The new opportunities'', Published by Thomson Financial * 2006, August: ''The Washing Machine'', paperback edition, with additional chapter on David Mills and Berlusconi, Published by Duckworth * 2005: ''The Washing Machine: how money laundering and terrorist financing soils us'', Published by Thomson-Texere Publishing * 2000: ''Ann Widdecombe: Right from the beginning'', Published by Politico's Publishing * 1998: ''Gordon Brown: the first year in power'' (with Hugh Pym), Published by Bloomsbury * 1996: ''The World’s Greatest Brands'', edited by Nicholas Kochan, Published by Macmillan * 1994: ''Biography of Sir David Alliance'', privately commissioned by the subject * 1992: ''Hanson. A biography''. Serialised by the Sunday Business newspaper. Commissioned Hamish Hamilton, ever published for legal reasons* 1991: ''Bankrupt, The BCCI fraud'', Published by Victor Gollancz (with Bob Whittington) * 1991: ''New Directions in Corporate Governance'', Published by the Economist Intelligence Unit * 1987: ''The Guinness Affair, anatomy of the scandal'', published by Christopher Helm (with Hugh Pym)

Freelance newspaper and magazine journalism

Kochan has published numerous articles in: *

The Observer ''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. First published in 1791, it is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. In 1993 it was acquired by Guardian Media Group Limited, and operated as a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' ...

The Economist ''The Economist'' is a British newspaper published weekly in printed magazine format and daily on Electronic publishing, digital platforms. It publishes stories on topics that include economics, business, geopolitics, technology and culture. M ...

The Times ''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its si ...

The Sunday Times ''The Sunday Times'' is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of N ...

The Sunday Telegraph ''The Sunday Telegraph'' is a British broadsheet newspaper, first published on 5 February 1961 and published by the Telegraph Media Group, a division of Press Holdings. It is the sister paper of ''The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Tele ...

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...

New Statesman ''The New Statesman'' (known from 1931 to 1964 as the ''New Statesman and Nation'') is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first c ...

* Euromoney Magazine * The Director * Offshore Financial Review Kochan is also a Contributing Editor to Euromoney Magazine and contributing editor to

The Banker ''The Banker'' is an English-language monthly international financial affairs publication owned by '' The Financial Times'' and edited in London, United Kingdom. The magazine was first published in January 1926 through founding editor Brendan ...

Radio and television journalism

Kochan regularly appears on

BBC Radio BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927. The service provides national radio stations cove ...

and TV and Sky as an expert on

money laundering Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money obtained from illicit activities (often known as dirty money) such as drug trafficking, sex work, terrorism, corruption, and embezzlement, and converting the funds i ...

economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

finance Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and Academic discipline, discipline of money, currency, assets and Liability (financial accounting), liabilities. As a subject of study, is a field of Business administration, Business Admin ...

and terrorist finance. Kochan interviewed 12 British businessmen for two series of six programmes about entrepreneurs for

BBC Radio Four BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of Talk radio, spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at B ...

. He also conducted six radio interviews with Jewish writers for another BBC Radio Four series. In 1990, Kochan researched a ''Despatches'' programme for Channel Four about the Guinness affair.

References

External links

Nick Kochan's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kochan, Nick British male journalists Living people Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge People educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford Year of birth missing (living people)