Andrew Craig
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Andrew Craig

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Andrew Craig is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, and founder of personal finance business Plain English Finance. His stated mission with the company is "to improve the financial affairs of as many people as possible".

Andrew’s first book, How to Own the World, has been one of the top-selling personal finance books in the UK for several years, and currently enjoys thousands of reviews across Amazon, Audible and Goodreads. It has also been published in China, India and Vietnam.

Since founding Plain English Finance, Andrew has appeared in numerous national and specialist financial publications including: The Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, The Financial Times, The Mirror, City A.M., The Spectator, Shares and MoneyWeek magazines, YourMoney, This is Money and Money Observer. He has been interviewed on Sky Television, Bloomberg and Shares Radio, and was featured in Michael Winterbottom’s 2015 documentary-comedy The Emperor’s New Clothes.

Andrew began his finance career at SBC Warburg in the late 1990s. Since then, he has held various senior equity roles at leading investment banks, both in London and New York. In that time, Andrew has met with the senior management teams of well over one thousand companies and with hundreds of professional investors, and has regularly been involved in high-profile stock market transactions. These have included the Kingdom of Sweden’s sale of Nordea Bank AB in 2013 (totalling 7.6 billion dollars) and the stock market flotation of several dozen companies including the likes of easyJet, Burberry, Campari, Carluccio’s, the Carbon Trust and lastminute.

From January 2015 to June 2021, Andrew was a partner at an investment bank specializing in biotechnology and life sciences, WG Partners LLP.

Andrew lives in Hampshire, England, with his wife, Rachel, and their two small children, Ella and Oscar.
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