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Pilita Clark

Business columnist

Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the FT where she writes on corporate life and climate change. Formerly the FT’s environment correspondent, her writing has won awards in the US and Asia and in 2019 she was named Environment Journalist of the Year for the third year in a row at the British Press Awards.

Before joining the FT, she was a Washington correspondent for Australian newspapers and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Email Pilita Clark @pilitaclark  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Environment

    Pilita Clark selects her best mid-year reads

  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Workplace diversity & equality
    Why tackling accent bias matters at work

    Wall Street banks and big City law firms among employers addressing potential discrimination

    A diverse group of people saying ‘Hi’ to each other in different accents
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Climate’s impact on sports and a call to arms — a round-up of environment books

    New titles include billionaire climate investor Tom Steyer on a way of life we can all pursue and a meditative take on nature’s resilience

  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Future of work
    The fading allure of the foreign posting

    Some companies have found that the impact of the pandemic has intensified a reluctance to move abroad for work

  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Climate change
    Employers face a rising climate conundrum

    Younger workers in unexpected places are pressing their firms to take serious action on emissions

    Illustration of a person sat at a desk with a laptop and a cloud over their head. They are crying, with their tears dropping into a mug
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Rishi Sunak’s big net zero UK election gamble

    If rowing back on climate action changes the political weather for the Tories, the consequences will be far-reaching

    Andy Carter illustration of a woman looking up at 2 voting booths, one with a tree growing out and another with smoggy air spewing out, to show the effects on the environment of voting one way or the other.
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    Office life
    The humble email sign-off is not what it used to be

    The rise of the permanent out-of-office is a sign of the dire state of work email

    Illustration of a women sitting at her computer looking bored with her head tilted back as the words Blah blah blah blah blah blah flow out of the screen over her
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    Corporate culture
    The case for having more fun at work

    There are serious reasons for having a laugh on the job

    Illustration of people smiling, one has a clown nose, one has a hat with a propeller and is blowing a party blower, another is droppinig a banana skin in front of a colleague walking past
  • Sunday, 12 May, 2024
    Leadership
    Domestic violence is a workplace issue

    Employers can do a lot more to help combat a depressingly persistent problem

    Illustration of a woman sitting, looking down at her desk, with a plaster on her forehead and someone patting her on the shoulder with little hearts around the hand
  • Sunday, 21 April, 2024
    Management
    The danger of the very serious person

    Grown-ups are needed in these troubled times but must do a better job on the climate problem

  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Working It
    Secrets of perfect panel moderation

    Your job is to be a ‘tour guide’ for the audience, plus the Office Therapy advice column

    Woman facing a seated audience
  • Monday, 15 April, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Climate revelations and reminders — a round-up of environment books

    Recent titles range from the effects of extreme weather on human behaviour to the unseen forces of nature

  • Sunday, 14 April, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    ChatGPT essay cheats are a menace to us all

    Students who outsource their thinking to AI tools pose a risk to future employers and more

  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    Climate change
    What if global emissions went down instead of up?

    That turning point could be closer than you think and its consequences may be profound

    Andy Carter illustration of a man looking through a gap in a wall of grey smoke, to the bright but ambiguous/unsure future ahead.
  • Sunday, 7 April, 2024
    Work & Careers
    It doesn’t pay to be a working-class professional

    Class is a bigger barrier to career progress than gender or ethnicity in some City firms

    Illustration of sweating person climbing a ladder with a huge weight, with the word ‘Family’ on it, balanced on their head
  • Sunday, 31 March, 2024
    Renewable energy
    Britain’s quiet green business success story

    UK climate tech has boomed despite Rishi Sunak’s decision to weaken net zero policies

    Illustration of the UK Houses of Parliament with a whole lot of green shoots growing towards them
  • Sunday, 24 March, 2024
    Work & Careers
    Covid still warps our sense of time

    Four years after lockdowns began we are still learning about pandemic hangovers

    A cartoon person has an enlarged head with a clock face and various question marks and sweat circulating in the air around it
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    Climate change
    Wall Street is letting Orwellian doublethink kill climate action

    Why on earth are investors falling for it?

    Ewan White illustration of the justice scale with the earth globe on one side and money on the other.
  • Sunday, 17 March, 2024
    Workplace diversity & equality
    Has the push for female equality gone too far?

    The answer is clearly no but a large share of people think otherwise

    Illustration of a woman with steam coming out of her ears and looking very angry, saying ‘Wait. Whaaaat?!’
  • Sunday, 10 March, 2024
    Office life
    The misery of the meeting motormouth

    An ability to interrupt yammering windbags who steal time is a sorely underrated skill

  • Sunday, 3 March, 2024
    Social affairs
    Why are women still being cast off the glass cliff?

    Female workers are deemed more likely to rise to the top when the job is risky and less appealing to men

    An oversized CEO lettering pushes a woman towards a cliff edge
  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    Work & Careers
    The menace of the overblown job title

    Terrible epithets confuse and infuriate, but they are also on the rise

    Kenneth Andersson illustration of a person sat at a desk holding a balloon with ‘Chief blah blah’ written on it and a hand holding a pin ready to burst it
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    Working from home
    Work from home if you want but don’t expect a pay rise

    Lower wage growth and higher productivity might be why bosses like remote working more than we think

  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Climate change
    How to do climate policy in the age of the green backlash

    Too many activists fret about a lack of ‘political will’, as if such a force can be magically bottled

    Andy Carter illustration of a politician stood talking about the climate to one crowd, while another is ignored away in the shadow.
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Busting myths and calls to action — a round-up of environment books

    Recent titles focusing on climate change include an interrogation of claims about data and pointers for citizens to make their voice heard

    Three book covers
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