Andrew Main

Business Editor of the Australian

Andrew Main has been the business editor of the Australian since June 2007. He is a highly experienced public speaker, MC and corporate communicator who is renowned for making business comprehensible and interesting.

Andrew has an indepth knowledge of corporate governance issues, the ASX and equity markets, insurance and reinsurance industries; and mining, resources and energy sectors.

He uses his extensive experience and knowledge to speak publicly and moderate discussions between business leaders at conferences throughout the country and overseas.

Andrew Main became a financial reporter in 1979 before a brief but exciting interlude as an institutional stockbroker in Sydney, Paris and London between 1987 and 1992 with the organisation now known as JP Morgan Australia.

He spent about 14 years with the Australian Financial Review as a senior reporter between 1993 and 2007, having previously done his cadetship at The West Australian and moved to the Sydney Morning Herald in 1984.

While at the AFR Andrew Main reported on the HIH Royal Commission and in 2003 Harper Collins published his book Other People’s Money - The complete story of the extraordinary collapse of HIH.

Later in 2003 he was involved in the AFR’s revelation of the Offset Alpine –Swiss Bank account affair which resulted in his being in the AFR team that was awarded the 2004 Gold Walkley Award, the top award in Australian journalism.

Andrew Main then wrote a biography of Rene Rivkin, Rivkin Unauthorised- The meteoric rise and tragic fall of an unorthodox money man, which was published in 2005 shortly after Rivkin’s death.

Both books sold well and were both in their year of publication shortlisted for the top award in business book publishing in Australia, the Blake Dawson Waldron Prize for Business Literature.

Andrew Main has a regular radio spot with Deborah Cameron on ABC 702 in Sydney in which he tries to unravel the mysteries of business.

Andrew received the ultimate accolade after a speech on HIH to a group of insurance lawyers on the Gold Coast in 2004. One of the lawyers, when filling in the feedback form after the speech, said the comedian wasn’t that funny.