Amarendra Swarup

Born in 1977, in a family that played a crucial role in India's freedom struggle, Amarendra Swarup was schooled at Harrows, England and went on to study at Cambridge. Starting as editor of the school's weekly paper, Amarendra continued to write - both fiction and non-fiction - during his long career as an Academic, Investment Banker and a Hedge Fund Manager.

He has helped to put together QFINANCE, a book of essays on global finance by leading practitioners and thinkers for Bloomsbury Publishing, sits on the Editorial Board of AllAaboutAlpha.com, a blog for the alternatives industry and runs a website called Pensionomics.com.

Money Mania: A Human History Of Financial Speculation is his first book.