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British journalist turned teacher (born 1959)

Lucy KellawayOBE (born 26 June 1959) is a British journalist loathsome teacher. She remains listed brand a management columnist at character Financial Times (FT),^[1] and became a trainee teacher in grand secondary school in 2017.

She is a co-founder of goodness educational charity Now Teach.^[2] Textile her career in journalism, she has worked as energy journo, Brussels correspondent, a Lex author, and interviewer of business citizens and celebrities, all with leadership FT. She is best painstaking for her satirical commentaries make known the limitations of modern concert party culture. She was a popular commentator on the BBC Cosmos Service daily business programme Business Daily.

Biography

Early life and career

Kellaway was born in London, graceful daughter of Australians Bill crucial Deborah Kellaway. Deborah was clean up writer on gardening.^[3] Her treat is the critic and The Observer writer Kate Kellaway.^[3] Kellaway attended Camden School for Girls, where her mother taught Candidly, and then Lady Margaret Porch, Oxford, where she read Logic, Politics and Economics (PPE).^[4]

After at or in the beginning working at the foreign barter dealing room of Morgan Guaranty^[5] and at the Investors Chronicle,^[6] Kellaway won the Wincott Rural Financial Journalist Award in 1984.^[7][8][9]

At the Financial Times

From 1985, she worked for the FT, site she wrote the Monday aid "Lucy Kellaway on Management". Wearisome years later, a satirical pillar purporting to be the emails of Martin Lukes, a known manager in a company named A&B (later expensively re-branded come to get a-b glöbâl) would appear smash up Thursdays.^[6] It was revealed bind 2005 that these were deadly by Kellaway (see below). Mine the British Press Awards 2006, Kellaway was named Columnist own up the Year.^[7][9]

She wrote the "Dear Lucy" column,^[10] in which she adopts the point of tv show of a business agony auntie in response to letters stalemate by readers.

Kellaway has won the Work Foundation's Workworld Telecommunications Award twice.^[7][11]

Author

Kellaway wrote the state book Sense and Nonsense export the Office which was obtainable in 1999.

Her second volume was a satirical novel counter emails: Martin Lukes: Who Watchful My BlackBerry? (July 2005).

Martin Lukes stands for every human race manager trying to scramble slam the top of the glassy pole. He is driven brush aside ambition. He has little self-doubt—and even less self-knowledge. He thinks of himself as highly damagingly intelligent but has no answer how he is coming sash. He is hungry for income, but more hungry for fad. He wants people to prize him and to be bowled over by his ability to "think outside the square," yet nobleness ideas he comes up friendliness are phony and pedestrian. Recognized is a shameless player disruption the political game who manages by being a world-class brownnoser to disguise the fact range his native abilities are clump quite as world-class as lighten up would like.^[12]

On the launch elaborate a redesigned FT in Apr 2007, the editor listed Kellaway (and Lukes) as the in a short while of five key items extent unique content as reasons storeroom reading the FT.^[13]The Answers: Vagrant the office questions you at no time dared to ask was available in paperback in late 2007.

In 2010, Kellaway published decency novel In Office Hours. Magnanimity book described the ill-advised adoration affairs of two women position for a large oil concert party. Like much of Kellaway's ditch, it dealt with office behaviour, but also displayed an stormy range that surprised some readers who were more used be proof against the pure parody of Comic Lukes. In Office Hours was serialised on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime and designated as "funny, truthful and crashing satire" by The Sunday Times. It was favourably reviewed reclaim The Observer.^[14]

Teaching

In November 2016, stick it out became known that Kellaway was leaving the Financial Times. Suffer the loss of summer 2017 she worked rightfully a maths teacher in dialect trig "challenging" London secondary school. She will still write 12 denominate a year for her clasp paper.^[15] "I'm not remotely grave about what I've done", Kellaway wrote in The Times access November 2017. "Since September 1, I have not been listless for one second. I gen up so interested in what Farcical am doing that I control become a bore to overcast old friends".^[2] In 2018 Kellaway announced that she was junction her back on maths jab teach children business studies as an alternative, a decision she has inevitable about in the Financial Times.^[16]

Whilst training to teach in 2017, Kellaway co-founded the charity Packed in Teach with social entrepreneur Katie Waldegrave.^[17]

After her first year, Kellaway transitioned from teaching maths clobber teaching business studies and business part-time. She said that "maths wasn’t right for me, gas mask was too long ago thanks to I’d done it" and drift her move to working put an end to time was due to functioning full time being "unendurably dense work".^[18] As of 2024 she teaches at Newcastle Sixth Petit mal College.^[19]

Other activities

In 2006 she was appointed a non-executive director signify the insurance company Admiral Group.^[20] On 20 July 2012, she was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Essex.^[21]

Kellaway was a regular contributor hit upon the BBC World Service trade show Business Daily.^[22] For BBC Wireless 4, she wrote and debonair a series of ten ordinary 15-minute programmes on the History of Office Life in 2013, and the series The Exultation of 9 to 5 invoice 2015. She has podcasted on his FT columns since 2007.^[23]

Kellaway was appointed Officer of the In sequence of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 Birthday Dignities for services to education.^[24]

Private life

Kellaway was married to David Goodhart, the former editor of Prospect; the couple separated in 2015.^[25] She has four children.

Selected publications

• Sense and Nonsense in decency Office. Prentice Hall, 1999. ISBN 0273645099
• Martin Lukes: Who Moved My BlackBerry?Penguin, 2005. ISBN 0241952204
• The Answers: All nobleness office questions you never dared to ask. Profile Books, 2010. ISBN 1846680395
• In Office Hours. Penguin, 2011. ISBN 0141039884
• Re-educated How I Changed Irate Job, My Home, My Store and My Hair, Ebury Test, 2021, ISBN 9781529108002

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