Duncan Campbell-Smith is a former journalist on the Financial Times and The Economist. His previous publications include Struggle for Take-Off, A History of British Airways (1986). He has worked as a management consultant with McKinsey in the 1980s, briefly as a consultant to the Audit Commission in 1989, and since then in corporate communications roles with Pearson plc, The Maitland Consultancy and Rolls-Royce plc.