Jonathan Davis (journalist)

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Jonathan Davis (born 17 February 1954)[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U275592 DAVIS, Jonathan], Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 is a British author, editor and journalist specialising in finance.

Educated at Winchester College and Cambridge University where he gained a master's degree in history, he became a senior business journalist at The Sunday Telegraph, The Times and The Economist before taking a master's degree in management at the MIT Sloan School of Management where, in preparation for his thesis, he met and studied the methods of investor Warren Buffett. Global Investor - Financial Gurus - [http://www.financial-gurus.com/gurus/2124/Jonathan-Davis Jonathan Davis] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205091759/http://www.financial-gurus.com/gurus/2124/Jonathan-Davis |date= 5 December 2008 }}{{Citation |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130116122751/http://www.agrifirma-brazil.com/advisers.html |archive-date=16 January 2013 |url=http://www.agrifirma-brazil.com/advisers.html |title=Advisors |website=Agrifirma Brazil |access-date=6 April 2009 |url-status=live }}

From 1995 to 2007, he wrote a weekly column in The Independent. From 2006 to 2009, he wrote a fortnightly column in the Financial Times. 

As of 2009, he writes a blog at Independent Investor, which he founded, and is investment director of Agrifirma, a specialist investment management company headed by investor Jim Slater. Since 2002, he has been chairman of the Savile Club in London. Independent Investor - [http://archive.independent-investor.com/static/aboutus.aspx About Us] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415173717/http://archive.independent-investor.com/static/aboutus.aspx |date=15 April 2009 }}