Michael Wilson was the Business Editor of Sky News, Britain’s award-winning 24-hour news channel.

Michael originally joined Sky Television in 1989. In 1992, he left to present GMTV’s early morning news and business hour.  He then returned to Sky as Business Editor in 1995, and launched Sky Business Report, the news channel’s then daily evening money programme. Since then, he has anchored nearly all of Sky’s coverage of major business events, from Budget specials to market crashes. Prior to his departure in the summer of 2009, he was the longest serving broadcast Business Editor in the United Kingdom.

Michael has had a long pedigree in news, business and current affairs. Before Sky, he was a reporter and presenter on Thames TV’s flagship This Week and in 1987, he helped found Thames’ award-winning The City Programme, where he worked as a reporter and main presenter.

In the 1990s, he also presented London News Radio’s Breakfast Show and helped launch Reuters Financial Television. In 2006, he was named Broadcast Business Journalist of the Year.

He was made Freeman of the City of London in 2005.