User:Daytona2/Merryn Somerset Webb

Merryn Somerset Webb is the editor of UK personal finance magazine MoneyWeek, writes for the Financial Times and Saga Magazine and is a radio and television commentator on financial matters.

After gaining a first class degree in History & Economics at the University of Cambridge's Gonville and Caius College, Somerset Webb was awarded a Daiwa scholarship and spent a year studying for a masters degree in Japanese language at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. In 1992, she moved to Japan to continue her Japanese studies and to produce business programmes for NHK, Japan's public television station.

In 1993, she became an institutional broker for SBC Warburg in Tokyo, where she stayed for five years. Returning to the London in 1998, to work for BNP Paribas, she later became a financial writer for The Week. Two years later, in 2000, she took on the role of launch editor for the financial weekly MoneyWeek.

She lives in London, with her husband and daughter.