Richard Donkin is an international author, speaker and commentator on work and management. For the past 14 years he was employment and recruitment columnist for the Financial Times.

Richard joined the FT in 1987 from the Yorkshire Post after he had been named Provincial Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards. He won awards for financial investigative journalism during his FT career.

His book, Blood, Sweat and Tears, The Evolution of Work, was published in the UK and US in 2001. Today Richard is pursuing an independent writing and consulting career with regular columns and articles in various publications.

He is a fellow and council member of the Royal Society for The Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Science and a trustee of Earthwatch Europe, an international environmental charity. He also has visiting fellowships in management at Cass Business School and Henley Management College. He can be contacted through his web site: RichardDonkin.com.