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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)
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Demographics and population
    Beware the march of the childless voter

    JD Vance’s attack on people without kids flies in the face of demographic reality

    A person stands on the winner’s podium with two other people in runners up positions who have children in tow
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Climate change
    Here come the new climate leaders

    A mega election year is ushering in a different breed of net zero lawmakers

    Ann Kiernan illustration of Atlas holding a burning earth, drawn on a background of a starry sky
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    Work & Careers
    How we stopped caring about corporate twaddle

    Empty, deceptive jargon is so pervasive we no longer notice it

    Kenneth Andersson illustration of a female figure shouting jargon.
  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
    Work-life balance
    Sun, sea and sickness: why we get ill on holiday

    Those of us who fall ill as soon as we stop work may need to rethink our approach to life

    Illustration of a person lying in a bed under a beach umbrella on the beach with an ice pack on their forehead and thermometer in their mouth while everyone else has fun in the sea
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    UK energy
    The risky holes in Keir Starmer’s green plan

    Big questions surround the new government’s admirable but detail-light goals

  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    Office life
    The new normal of office life

    As working from home persists, companies are rethinking the role of office space

    Illustration of a person holding a pile of gifs and sayin ‘welcome’ to a line of people holding briefcases and wearing office attire
  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    Work & Careers
    The productivity hack that really does boost careers

    Physical stamina is an oddly overlooked superpower in modern working life

    A worker wearing a crown works happily in the spotlight while others in the office are asleep at their desk or look flustered
  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes podcast27 min listen
    Does pay transparency work? With Zoe Cullen and Pilita Clark

    New research finds more transparency doesn’t always mean more pay

  • 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
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    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
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