David Craig is a British author who has worked as a management consultant. He is known for his critical perspective on the consulting industry and public sector spending. In 2005, Craig published Rip-Off!: the scandalous inside story of the management consulting money machine, in which he criticized what he characterized as greed and sharp practice within the management consulting profession. Following this, he co-authored Plundering the Public Sector: how New Labour are letting consultants run off with £70 billion of our money with Richard Brooks, focusing on consultancy practices in the public sector. In April 2008, Craig published Squandered: how Gordon Brown is wasting over one trillion pounds of our money, continuing his examination of public spending and financial management.