Lucy Kellaway
Encyclopedia
Lucy Kellaway is the management columnist at the Financial Times
(FT). Her column is syndicated in The Irish Times
. In addition she has worked as energy correspondent, Brussels correspondent, a Lex writer, and interviewer of business people and celebrities, all with the FT. She has become well known for her satirical commentaries on the limitations of modern corporate culture. She is a regular commentator on the BBC World Service
daily business programme Business Daily. At the British Press Awards 2006
she was named Columnist of the Year.
, the daughter of Bill and Deborah Kellaway, the writer on gardening, Kellaway attended Camden School for Girls
and then Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). She is married to David Goodhart
, editor
of Prospect
, and has four children. Her sister is the critic
and The Observer
writer Kate Kellaway.
, a senior manager in a company called A&B (later expensively re-branded to a-b glöbâl) would appear on Thursdays. It was revealed in 2005 that these were also written by Kellaway (see below).
She currently writes the Dear Lucy column in which she and lucky readers take the part of agony aunt and participates on the social messaging platform Twitter
.
She wrote the book Sense and Nonsense in the Office in 1999, and a satirical novel
in emails: Martin Lukes: Who Moved My BlackBerry (July 2005).
On the launch of a re-designed FT in April 2007, the Editor listed Kellaway (and Lukes) as the 2nd of 5 key items of unique content as reasons for reading the FT.
Kellaway is also a regular contributor to the BBC World Service
programme Business Daily.
In 2006 she was appointed a non-executive Director of the insurance company Admiral Group
.
In The Economist: The World in 2010, Kellaway claims the era of the MBA and its glamour is over. She writes, "In 2010 it will become clear that the class and glamour are draining away from business too ... business will be cool no longer."
Financial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
(FT). Her column is syndicated in The Irish Times
The Irish Times
The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Kevin O'Sullivan who succeeded Geraldine Kennedy in 2011; the deputy editor is Paul O'Neill. The Irish Times is considered to be Ireland's newspaper of record, and is published every day except Sundays...
. In addition she has worked as energy correspondent, Brussels correspondent, a Lex writer, and interviewer of business people and celebrities, all with the FT. She has become well known for her satirical commentaries on the limitations of modern corporate culture. She is a regular commentator on the BBC World Service
BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...
daily business programme Business Daily. At the British Press Awards 2006
British Press Awards 2006
The British Press Awards is an annual ceremony that has celebrated the best of British journalism since the 1970s. A financially lucrative part of the Press Gazette's business, they have been described as "the Oscars of British journalism", or less flatteringly, "The Hackademy Awards".The British...
she was named Columnist of the Year.
Personal life
Born in LondonLondon
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, the daughter of Bill and Deborah Kellaway, the writer on gardening, Kellaway attended Camden School for Girls
Camden School for Girls
The Camden School for Girls is a comprehensive secondary school for girls, with a co-educational sixth form, in the London Borough of Camden in North London. It has about one thousand students of ages eleven to eighteen, and specialist-school status as a Music College...
and then Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Lady Margaret Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located at the end of Norham Gardens in north Oxford. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £34m....
, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). She is married to David Goodhart
David Goodhart
David Goodhart was the Editor of Prospect, a British current affairs magazine. He was formerly a senior correspondent of the Financial Times...
, editor
Editing
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of Prospect
Prospect (magazine)
Prospect is a monthly British general interest magazine, specialising in politics and current affairs. Frequent topics include British, European, and US politics, social issues, art, literature, cinema, science, the media, history, philosophy, and psychology...
, and has four children. Her sister is the critic
Critic
A critic is anyone who expresses a value judgement. Informally, criticism is a common aspect of all human expression and need not necessarily imply skilled or accurate expressions of judgement. Critical judgements, good or bad, may be positive , negative , or balanced...
and The Observer
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
writer Kate Kellaway.
Business career
For many years she was known for her column "Lucy Kellaway on Management", which came out on Mondays in the FT. In addition, some years later, a satirical column purporting to be the emails of Martin LukesMartin Lukes
Martin Lukes is a fictional character in a satirical column in the Financial Times. Lukes was also the subject of the spinoff novel Martin Lukes: Who Moved My BlackBerry "cowritten with Lucy Kellaway"...
, a senior manager in a company called A&B (later expensively re-branded to a-b glöbâl) would appear on Thursdays. It was revealed in 2005 that these were also written by Kellaway (see below).
She currently writes the Dear Lucy column in which she and lucky readers take the part of agony aunt and participates on the social messaging platform Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
.
She wrote the book Sense and Nonsense in the Office in 1999, and a satirical novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
in emails: Martin Lukes: Who Moved My BlackBerry (July 2005).
Martin Lukes stands for every male manager trying to scramble to the top of the greasy pole. He is driven by ambition. He has little self-doubt--and even less self-knowledge. He thinks of himself as highly emotionally intelligent but has no idea how he is coming across. He is hungry for money, but more hungry for recognition. He wants people to love him and to be dazzled by his ability to "think outside the square," yet the ideas he comes up with are phony and pedestrian. He is a shameless player of the political game who manages by being a world-class brownnoser to disguise the fact that his native abilities are not quite as world-class as he would like.
On the launch of a re-designed FT in April 2007, the Editor listed Kellaway (and Lukes) as the 2nd of 5 key items of unique content as reasons for reading the FT.
Kellaway is also a regular contributor to the BBC World Service
BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...
programme Business Daily.
In 2006 she was appointed a non-executive Director of the insurance company Admiral Group
Admiral Group
Admiral Group plc is a motor insurance company with its head office in Cardiff, Wales. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, it is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.-History:...
.
In The Economist: The World in 2010, Kellaway claims the era of the MBA and its glamour is over. She writes, "In 2010 it will become clear that the class and glamour are draining away from business too ... business will be cool no longer."