David Brough is Co-Founder and Editor of digital trade magazine Jewellery Outlook. David received a Thai government award for his support of Thailand's gem and jewellery industry, in 2020. David was a Reuters correspondent and editor for three decades and, whilst based in Rome, won the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's A.H. Boerma award in 2002/3 for his reporting on hunger issues. He is an M.A. (Hons) graduate in Economics and French from St. Andrews University and speaks five languages.