James Ashton is a business writer, commentator and consultant. His journalism appears regularly in the Evening Standard and the Sunday Telegraph (where he wrote the ‘Questor’ column), and he contributes CEO interviews for the Mail on Sunday, The Times (London) and the Telegraph. He was City Editor and Executive Editor of the Evening Standard and Independent and before that City Editor of the Sunday Times (London). He is currently CEO of the Quoted Companies Alliance, championing the UK’s 1000+ small and mid-sized companies whose shares are publicly traded. He also runs Oscar’s Book Prize, a competition to find the best pre-school book of the year.