Eben Wilson, Senior Fellow

Eben Wilson is the Director of Taxpayer Scotland, an advocacy group which brings the voice of the Scots taxpayer to Holyrood and Westminster, to campaign for lower taxes and limited government. Among his work for the Adam Smith Institute was Digital Dirigisme, in which he argued against government intervention in the emerging digital economy.

Formerly Editorial Director of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, Eben has an MA (Hons) in Economics from St Andrews University. He trained at the Tom Hopkinson School of Journalism and worked in radio and television broadcasting as an economics and technology journalist for twenty years before migrating to exploit commercial opportunities in convergent digital media. He now runs an internet services and telematics company specialising in data gathering in the field and industrial e-procurement.