David Osler
Insurance Editor

David specialises in the white collar shipping services scene, including law firms, banks, insurers, and trade associations, and also turns his hand to piracy, sanctions and industrial relations stories as necessary.
A London-born British and Swiss dual national, he was educated at the London School of Economics and Birkbeck College, and has academic qualification in politics, sociology, economics and international relations.
Three times voted Seahorse Club shipping news journalist of the year, he has also twice been longlisted for the Orwell Prize, Britain’s premier non-fiction literary award, and twice shortlisted as Periodical Publishers’ Association business journalist of the year, the highest honour in trade press journalism.
He has worked for Lloyd’s List since 1996, making him the longest-serving member of staff, although he doesn’t like to mention that more than three or four times a week at most. Unless it’s strictly necessary.
He has also written for many other newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, Observer, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express and New Statesman, and has appeared on all of Britain’s main television and radio news programmes.
He is a member of the Labour Party, Amnesty International and National Council for Civil Liberties, and supports the charitable work of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and the Trussell Trust network of foodbanks.
Latest From David Osler
North and Standard Club members approve merger
Standard Club and North held special general meetings today in Rome and Athens, respectively, at which members of both clubs voted ‘resoundingly’ in favour of merging
Russia failing to reopen port of Mariupol
IMO warns industry of threat from free-floating mines in Black Sea, and urges cautious navigation
Bowsher defends West decision not to renew 20% of book
‘A lot of people have said we have shrunk, but it depends on what measure you are looking at,’ says chief executive
Bowsher defends West decision not to renew 20% of book
Move leaves International Group affiliate much reduced by size of portfolio but should see return to underwriting surplus in 2022/23, chief executive says
Shipowners will be ‘forced’ to build greener ships
‘The big container lines understand they have got no choice. The major problem will be for the smaller private owners’
Braemar benefits from ‘strong’ trading environment
Current trading ‘well ahead’ of expectations set at the start of the new financial year