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Writer and editor with more than 25 years experience writing about business for the Financial Times, the Economist Intelligence Unit, and the BBC.

I cover all aspects of business; specialist topics include finance, HR, economics, business strategy, risk management, entrepreneurship, and family business.

Over the last decade, my main focus has been thought leadership reports for the Economist Intelligence Unit, and more recently, Longitude Research, for an array of international companies.

Selected work:

More than two dozen thought leadership reports and papers on HR, finance, innovation, entrepreneurship, family business, globalization and risk management including:

• The search for growth Opportunities and risks for institutional investors A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit

http://progress.acegroup.com/media/attachments/ACE_Emerging_Risks_Barometer_2013_1.pdf

• The long view: Getting new perspective on strategic risk A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit

http://www.cfoinnovation.com/system/files/Long_View_Strategic_Risk_EIU.pdf

• White paper on entrepreneurship (Barclays Wealth)

https://wealth.barclays.com/content/dam/bwpublic/global/documents/wealth_management/insights7-entrepreneur-uk.pdf

• White paper on changing investment landscape (ACCA)

http://www.accaglobal.co.uk/content/dam/acca/global/PDF-technical/financial-reporting/pol-afb-ui01.pdf

Writer, T Magazine, E&Y’s award winning tax magazine.

Financial Times contributor, focusing on entrepreneurship and family business (and occasional book reviews and Lunch With…Malcolm Gladwell, Pierre Omidyar...).

Editor, John Ward and Randel Carlock’s When Families are Best (Palgrove Macmillan 2010

Case writer and researcher INSEAD and London Business School: over a dozen cases studies and research notes on various aspects of entrepreneurship, finance and family business

Swiss Bank Corporation Intl: research reports for UK and French privatizations and international equity transactions in the UK, France and Australia.

Education: B Comm, Master of Economic Science (UCD): MBA (INSEAD)

  • Education
    • B Com. Master of Economic Science (UCD), MBA (INSEAD)