David Milstead is a freelance financial journalist whose main client is The Globe and Mail, the national newspaper of Canada. He writes at least twice a week on topics such as investments, accounting and financial reporting, executive compensation, and corporate governance. 

He was finance editor of Denver’s Rocky Mountain News until the newspaper closed in February 2009. He joined the News in April 2001 from The Wall Street Journal, where he worked for the paper’s Southeast Journal regional section. He has also worked in his native South Carolina and in Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Milstead is a graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio with majors in economics and political science. He has individually or jointly won nine awards from SABEW. He passed the Level I exam in the Chartered Financial Analyst program in December 2007.