David Enrich is former European Banking Editor for The Wall Street Journal. He was responsible for coordinating the Journal’s coverage of banking and regulatory policy across Europe.Mr. Enrich has received numerous journalism awards, including in 2012 an Overseas Press Club award for coverage of the European financial crisis and a George Polk Award for coverage of insider trading. Mr. Enrich was part of teams of Journal reporters who were finalists for Pulitzer Prizes in 2009 and 2011.. In 2013, Enrich became the news. On October 17 of that year, a British judge ordered David and the Wall Street Journal to comply with a request by the U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office prohibiting the newspaper from publishing names of individuals in the government's ongoing investigation into alleged manipulation of the London interbank offered rate. David was threatened with jail if he disobeyed. In 2016, returned to New York from London, and wrote his book "The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History", and was published in March 2017 to critical acclaim. National Review called The Spider Network "a nonfiction epic...an engrossing, entertaining tale." Bloomberg Businessweek called it an "exhaustively reported tale" and author Harlan Coban praised it as a "terrific nonfiction book." The New York Times called it a "vivid depiction of the ethos of the core financial institutions upon which the global economy depends." CNBC and the FT recommended the book as one of their summer reads. It was also shortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.A native of Lexington, Massachusetts, in September this year he left the Wall St. Journal and became the Business Day Financial Editor of The New York Times. We are pleased to have David, a truth teller of the first order on The Economic Warrior Show. To contact David further, contact: david.enrich@nytimes.com
