Stephen Daryl King (born November 1963) is a British economist.
He is senior economic adviser at HSBC Holdings, where he was chief economist from 1998 to July 2015.
[1] King also works as a journalist and consultant, and was a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee between 2015 and 2017.
[2] He is author of Losing Control: The Emerging Threats to Western Prosperity (2010), When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence (2013), Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History (2017)[3] and We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years (2023).
He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at New College, Oxford.