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David Llewellyn-Smith
David Llewellyn-Smith (born 16 March 1967, Sydney, Australia) is a prominent figure in Australian independent media and a widely published economics commentator and author.

Llewellyn-Smith was the founding publisher of The Diplomat magazine in 2000. For the eight years under his control as Publisher and later Editor-in-Chief, The Diplomat magazine maintained its place as Australia’s leading international business and politics magazine. This included publication of the special issues “Global 100”, “FDI 100” and “SMEGlobal100” in conjunction with Ibisworld. The magazine was sold in 2007 and its online operation is now the leading international relations website for the Asian region.

In 2009, Llewellyn-Smith co-authored The Great Crash of 2008 with prominent Australian economist, Ross Garnaut. The book was published by Melbourne University Press. It recounts the role of four major factors in the lead up to the global financial crisis: global imbalances; global housing bubbles, the emergence of "clever money" and unprecedented greed. The book remains widely in circulation and is considered to have been influential in Canberran policy circles following the crisis.

Also in 2009, Llewellyn-Smith created The Distillery, a five day per week morning column recruited by Business Spectator. The column critiqued the top business commentators across all major newspapers and remains in circulation today.

In 2010, Llewellyn-Smith was the driving force behind the foundation of MacroBusiness, Australia's most prominent economics and markets blog. And in 2012 he founded Macro Investor, an independent invest newsletter.

Llewellyn-Smith's articles on economics and political economy are widely and regularly published at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the ABC's The Drum.