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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)
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    An ode to animals, hooked on plastics — and other notable new books on the environment

    Including Maxim Samson’s fresh look at humanity’s imprint on the planet and Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow’s exploration of the nuclear debate

    A row of book covers
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    Leadership
    It pays to be vulnerable — but please pick your moments

    Admissions of overwhelm show humanity, if people in charge are strategic with their weaknesses

    Illustration of a figure at a podium trying to speak surrounded by busy and chaotic speech bubbles
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Climate change
    How hopeful can we be about AI climate tech?

    Results that look great in a lab sometimes struggle in real life

    Data centre of French company OVHcloud
  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Problem at work? You’ll be hearing from my chatbot

    A flood of AI-generated complaints means a new kind of unwarranted hassle for HR and customer services

    Kenneth Andersson illustration of a hand pushing a button on a laptop, which is emitting hammer and finger-pointing symbols
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    FT Magazine
    How the next financial crisis starts

    The climate shocks that could trigger wider market turmoil

    Meltdown text
  • Sunday, 22 June, 2025
    Working from home
    Return to office edicts aren’t always what they seem

    When top executives work remotely, it becomes more difficult to drag everyone else to their desks

    A worker spins a globe on a finger while using the other hand to place a pin marked CEO on a location
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Summer books 2025: the best titles of the year so far
    Best summer books of 2025: Environment, Science and Technology

    Pilita Clark, Clive Cookson and John Thornhill select their best mid-year reads

    Collage of book covers
  • Sunday, 15 June, 2025
    Work & Careers
    The career boost of marrying well

    Emotionally competent partners are valuable to workers and bosses alike

    Illustration of a woman working on her laptop on the sofa with her partner supporting her saying, ‘You can do it!’
  • Sunday, 8 June, 2025
    Office life
    The brutal truth about today’s lay-offs

    Dismissing people by email or phone is still distressingly common and needs to stop

    Illustration of a woman looking shocked while a voice comes out of the phone saying, ‘and have a nice day’
  • Saturday, 7 June, 2025
    Airlines
    Passengers flying cattle class need caviar too

    Spare a thought for those of us stewing in ever more unpleasant juices at the back

    Passengers on a flight
  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
    Flexible working
    Would you work 32 hours Monday to Sunday?

    One boss thinks it might be better than the traditional four-day week

    An illustration of a female employee creating a work calendar with a brush and palette
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    Future of work
    It pays to use AI on the sly at work

    That’s why companies need to think of ways to encourage open adoption

    Illustration of a person using a laptop and a phone under the desk
  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    Management
    Why can’t more financial heavyweights write letters like Warren Buffett?

    Everyone loves the annual missives from Berkshire Hathaway’s boss, but others cannot or will not replicate them

    Illustration of a person writing a letter and throwing a ball of paper away
  • Sunday, 4 May, 2025
    Future of work
    Why the ECB is telling staff it’s time to move

    Central bank wants employees to swap roles at a faster pace

    Illustration of an hourglass shaped like an 8 being shaken at a worker at their desk
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Sustainability30 min
    Are we on the brink of a nuclear revival? | FT Film

    Why small nuclear power stations could be a huge threat to renewable energy

    When Tech Goes Nuclear - FT Film
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The joys of exploring and restoring the natural world — a round-up of new environment books

    A memoir by Merlin Hanbury-Tenison; Sarah Lonsdale on the lives of five remarkable women; Hannah Bourne-Taylor’s fight to save swifts; and Hannah Dale’s tale on rewilding a farm

  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    US companies
    The pain of doing business under Trump

    Buckling to a volatile administration has costs that are only starting to become apparent

    Illustration of Donald Trump with hands waving white flags in the foreground
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    Work & Careers
    The weird state of April fooling

    An abundance of timidity in a volatile world means Fool’s gold is losing its shine

    Illustration of a person looking unimpressed at ‘hahaha’ coming out of their computer
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    Work & Careers
    It’s a WhatsApp world at work now

    And that’s not always a good thing

    Illustration of three people on their phones with the words ‘Top secret!’
  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    Work & Careers
    Side hustles, Zoom waves and the Great Casualisation: how Covid shaped new ways to work

    Five years after lockdown, what are the lasting effects and the forgotten pandemic trends?

    Illustration of people representing work from home, video calls, leadership and travel
  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    Performance management
    How did we do? Fine until you asked

    Demands for customer feedback have gone from bad to out of control

    Illustration of a person in a fancy restaurant eating a meal and being offered a survey by a waiter
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    ReviewBusiness books
    Business books: what to read this month

    Happiness interventions, navigating relationships with the boss (or when you’re the boss) and a road map for perfectionists

    Three book covers
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    UK energy
    Gas, not net zero, has driven up UK power bills

    Britain has been unhelpfully exposed to international price shocks

    Blue gas flames encircle a wind turbine and two solar panels and all of this sits within a larger flame
  • Sunday, 16 March, 2025
    Performance management
    How to spot a low performer

    It’s a lot harder than it should be despite decades of corporate effort

    Illustration of a person worriedly using a laptop with a zigzag red arrow coming out of the screen and trending downward
  • Sunday, 9 March, 2025
    Work & Careers
    The sobering new state of feminism

    Support for female equality is edging up but going backwards among young men

    Illustration of a man rolling his eyes while standing with a group of women
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