Merryn Rosemary Somerset Webb (born 23 June 1970), is a Senior Columnist at Bloomberg writing about wealth, investing and personal finance and is a radio and television commentator on financial matters.
[2][3] After gaining a first class degree in History & Economics as a senior scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Webb was awarded a Daiwa scholarship and spent a year studying for a master's degree in Japanese language at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
[4] In 1993, she became an institutional broker for SBC Warburg in Tokyo, where she stayed for five years.
Returning to London in 1998, to work for BNP Paribas, she later became a financial writer for The Week.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) In 2013, Somerset-Webb was awarded an honorary doctorate in Business Administration from BPP University for her contribution to financial journalism.
[citation needed] In 2022 Somerset-Webb published her second book Share Power, In 2022 she became a Senior Columnist at Bloomberg writing about wealth, investing and personal finance.
Somerset-Webb has won multiple awards for her journalism, including; Somerset Webb, Merryn (20 April 2008).
Share Power: How ordinary people can change the way that capitalism works - and make money too.