Dan McCrum Speaker

Dan McCrum Keynote Speaker

  • Member of the Financial Times investigations team
  • Author of 'Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth'
  • Multi-award winning writer

Dan McCrum's Biography

Dan McCrum is a highly respected journalist and author with a long and successful career at the Financial Times. McCrum is a highly sought-after speaker on economics and finance

As an author Dan McCrum has published his most recent book, Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth, which tells the true story of the rise and fall of Wirecard and the newspaper investigation that exposed the company’s multi-billion dollar fraud.

As a member of the investigations team, he has earned numerous awards and accolades for his reporting on Wirecard, including prizes from the London Press Club, the Society of Editors, the New York Financial Writers’ Association, the Overseas Press Club, and the Gerald Loeb awards. McCrum also received the Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic journalism, a Reporters Forum Reporterpreis, and a special award from the Helmut Schmidt prize jury for investigative journalism. In 2020, he was named Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards.

In 2022, McCrum’s work on the Wirecard scandal was featured in the documentary “Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard,” which premiered on Netflix. The film, a documentary thriller, tells the inside story of McCrum’s six-year investigation into the German fintech company and the dirty tricks deployed against him as he worked to expose a multi-billion euro fraud.

McCrum’s expertise and in-depth understanding of these complex subjects make him a valuable asset to any event, and his engaging and dynamic speaking style ensures that his presentations are always informative, thought-provoking, and entertaining.  Dan provides valuable insights and delivers an engaging and memorable presentation.

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Books by Dan McCrum

Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth

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