Michael Avery

Michael is a financial journalist and broadcaster with a decade’s experience covering financial markets. First, with the late veteran financial columnist and publisher David Gleason, and most recently, his daily business show, “Hot Business”, broadcast on Hot 1027. Avery edits the country’s premier private equity publication, Catalyst, and was the driving force behind the country’s first ever Water-Energy-Food nexus event, the SA Water, Energy & Food Forum (SAWEF). He has also had forays into mass newspaper publishing with the now defunct Second Business and has a Dionysus-like affection for all things grape. Avery holds a BA degree in journalism from the University of Johannesburg.