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
Chinese finance lease tonnage faces US port fees uncertainty, Reed Smith warns
Further hearing due to take place before roll-out
Stowaway bill for industry hitting millions of dollars a year
Numbers down since peak in first two decades of century
Yemen sanctions breaches void P&I cover: International Group
Stringent due diligence needed, insurers warn, after three vessels blacklisted
Paul Dean looking to his legacy at HFW
‘I’ve been a litigator and advisory shipping lawyer for 36 years plus and I love it,’ reveals head of shipping
Yemen sanctions breaches void P&I cover, International Group tells owners
Circular comes after three vessels blacklisted
BIMCO and ASBA update model tanker charterparty after nearly 50 years
New York named as default arbitration venue