PERSON: Simon Constable

Host

Simon Constable is host of the News Hub show,which airs weekdays at 8.30 a.m. ET on WSJ Live. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, TheStreet.com, the New York Post, the New York Sun, Barron’s and the South China Morning Post. He is also a frequent guest on Fox News, BBC, and PBS’s Nightly Business Report; a fill-in host for the John Batchelor Show on WABC Radio; and was previously a sr. correspondent for TheStreet.com TV.

Constable holds an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia. He also worked on Wall Street as an adviser to top management and as a consultant to some of America’s most prestigious companies. He lives in New York City. His first book, The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators that Really Matter, which he coauthored with Robert E. Wright, was an economics category winner in the 2012 Small Business Book Awards at Small Business Trends.

— wsj.com