Born in
Brighton, he has a degree in economics and politics from the
University of Southampton and an MSc in business from
Bradford University Management Centre. Brummer began his career with work experience at
J. Walter Thompson and as a correspondent at
Haymarket Publishing between 1970 and 1972. He then joined
The Guardian as the Financial Correspondent. He was the main reporter on the fringe banking crisis of 1973/4 and the 1976 sterling crisis. In 1979, he became the US financial and Washington correspondent for
The Guardian. He covered the
1980,
1984, and
1988 US presidential elections for the newspaper. His work in this area earned him the 1989
Overseas Press Club award for the best foreign correspondent in the US. Brummer then took up positions as a foreign editor and financial editor, and completed his twenty-six-year tenure at
The Guardian as associate editor. He worked as consultant editor for the
Financial Mail on Sunday between 1999 and 2000 and was voted Financial Journalist of the Year at the
British Press Awards. In 2000, he became the city editor of the
Daily Mail. Brummer covered the 2003
Iraq War for the
Daily Mail from
Washington, D.C., and led the newspaper's coverage on the 2007 run on
Northern Rock, collapse of
Lehman Brothers, and subsequent
credit crunch. On 4 February 2009, Brummer appeared as a witness at the
House of Commons Treasury Select Committee, along with
Robert Peston (BBC),
Lionel Barber (
Financial Times),
Simon Jenkins (
The Guardian), and
Jeff Randall (Sky News) to answer questions on the role of the media in financial stability and "whether financial journalists should operate under any form of reporting restrictions during banking crises". ==Honours==