Lucy Kellaway

Lucy Kellaway (born 26 June 1959) is the management columnist at the Financial Times and co-founder of the educational charity Now Teach. 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 best 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.

Born in London, the daughter of Australians Bill and Deborah Kellaway, the writer on gardening, Kellaway attended Camden School for Girls, where her mother taught English, and then Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE).

After initially working at the foreign exchange dealing room of Morgan Guaranty and at the Investors Chronicle. Kellaway won the Wincott Young Financial Journalist Award in 1984.

Since 1985, she has worked for the FT, where she wrote the Monday column "Lucy Kellaway on Management". Some years later, a satirical column purporting to be the emails of Martin Lukes, 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 written by Kellaway (see below). At the British Press Awards 2006, Kellaway was named Columnist of the Year.

She currently writes the "Dear Lucy" column, in which she adopts the point of view of a business agony aunt in response to letters sent by readers.

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