James Kirby is the current Wealth Editor of The Australian. He is one of Australia’s most experienced financial journalists.

James is a former managing editor and co-founder of Business Spectator and Eureka Report and has previously worked at the Australian Financial Review and the South China Morning Post. He is a regular commentator on radio and television, he is the author of several business biographies and has served on the Walkley Awards Advisory Board. James co-hosts The Money Cafe podcast with Alan Kohler.

For many years James has presented a weekly segment on News Breakfast with Virginia Trioli and Michael Rowland at the ABC. He appears as a regular guest on a number of radio stations including ABC 774 in Victoria with Raf Epstein.

James was co-founder and shareholder in the AIBM group with Alan Kohler and Robert Gottliebsen. The AIBM group launched Eureka Report, Business Spectator and a range of related titles before it was sold to News Corporation in 2012.  James was managing editor of the AIBM group. He is also chairman of Well Made Clothes, an online publishing and retail company.

James has written a range of Australian business books including biographies of the late Richard Pratt and Harvey Norman’s Gerry Harvey. He has also written the Australian edition of ‘Investment for Dummies’ along with ‘My Mother’s Diamonds‘, a television documentary on the holocaust assets affair.