Allister Heath (born 1978) is a British business journalist and commentator. He was announced as the new editor of The Sunday Telegraph in April 2017.
Heath was born in Mulhouse in Alsace, France to a part-British family. He lived there until the age of 17 when he moved to the UK to study economics at the London School of Economics (1995-1998), followed by a post-graduate MPhil in the subject at Hertford College, Oxford.
Formerly editor of City AM and The Business, the latter closing shortly Heath's departure in 2008. Since then he was deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph, responsible for business content, and an associate editor at The Spectator.
His first book, A Flat Tax: Towards a British Model, was published in 2006.