Richard Donkin

Richard Donkin is an award-winning author and columnist. Based in Woking in the UK, he works as a commentator and writer on management, employment, sailing and fishing. His first book, The History of Work, was warmly received and extensively reviewed in the US and UK (Times Literary Supplement, Washington Post, New York Times, Time, The Economist).

His latest book, The Future of Work, looking at the themes transforming the way we work today, won the inaugural Chartered Management Institute's Management Book of the Year Award in the digital books category (2011).

Richard is a former Financial Times journalist and still contributes columns as an independent writer. His FT career began in late 1987 after he had been named Provincial Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards for 1986 in recognition of a six-month undercover investigation that led to an expose of the National Front's activities in Northern Ireland. For a number of years he had an investigative brief at the FT, covering various financial scandals and the arms to Iraq affair.

Richard played a prominent role in the team which secured the Reporter of The Year award in the 1991 British Press Awards for its coverage of the BCCI collapse. Another investigation into Midland Bank was cited by the 'What The Papers Say' judges when they named the FT Newspaper of the Year in 1991. In 1994 he switched to employment and management writing and took over the FT's recruitment column. While he lives in Surrey he still sees himself as something of an exiled Yorkshireman. He enjoys, fishing, sailing and walking.