Andreas Wesemann was born in Vienna, and has lived and worked in the UK, the USA and Asia for the past 35 years. He is a partner at Ashcombe Advisers, an investment banking business in London, and co-founder of two free schools in Hackney which today have 1,000 pupils. He was a trustee of the Wiener Holocaust Library in 2014-24 and lives in London.

He has published two books - Chronicle of a Downfall. Germany 1929–39, a collection of writings by Leopold Schwarzschild, a German publisher and journalist (this was originally published in German by Czernin Verlag in Vienna) and The Abolition of Deposit Insurance. A modest Proposal for Banking Reform, a pamphlet published by the Centre for Policy Studies in 2016.