Richard Tomkins is chief feature writer of the Financial Times

Financial Times

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, a position he has held since 2006. Previously he worked as a columnist writing on consumer culture, as consumer industries editor and as a correspondent in the newspaper's New York bureau, among other positions.

In 2003 he was named Business Journalist of the Year in the Business Journalist of the Year Awards

Business Journalist of the Year Awards

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 and in 2007 he was awarded the David Watt Prize for outstanding political journalism.

He attended King Edward's School

King Edward's School, Birmingham

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 in Birmingham

Birmingham

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and, after several jobs including a three-year apprenticeship with his local newspaper, the Walsall Observer, he joined the FT in 1983.

He is married and has three young children.