About Alan Kohler
Alan Kohler has been a financial journalist for 41 years. He began as a cadet on The Australian covering the Poseidon boom and bust; has been a columnist for Chanticleer in the Australian Financial Review and editor of the AFR, and columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Alan has also served as editor of The Age and for the past 12 years he has been working for the ABC, first as business editor of the 7.30 Report and then host of Inside Business and finance presenter on ABC News. In recent years he has started his own newsletter, Eureka Report, and in 2007 launched a website, Business Spectator. In June 2012 Alan Kohler sold his interests in Business Spectator and Eureka Report to News Ltd. He continues to edit and contribute to both publications.