Andrew Hill is an award-winning writer and journalist. As senior business writer at the Financial Times and consulting editor, FT Live, he writes columns, interviews and longer features about leadership and management and takes part in video discussions and podcasts. He is a regular public speaker, presenter and chair of panels.
He has served as FT management editor, City editor, financial editor and comment and analysis editor.
Andrew is the author of ‘Leadership in the Headlines’ (2016), a collection of his columns, and ‘Ruskinland’ (2019), about the enduring influence of Victorian thinker John Ruskin, which was named Ruskin Society Book of the Year in 2020.
His latest book, ‘Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand’, will be published by Profile in 2026.
He joined the FT in 1988 and has also worked as New York bureau chief, foreign news editor and correspondent in Brussels and Milan.
Andrew was named Business Commentator of the Year at the 2016 Comment Awards and Commentator of the Year at the 2009 Business Journalist of the Year Awards, where he also received a Decade of Excellence award.
Andrew is a member of the advisory council of the Institute of Business Ethics. He has previously served as trustee and chair of Blueprint for Better Business, trustee of the Ruskin Foundation, chair of governors, Aboyne Lodge School, and a member of the Alumni Advisory Board of the University of Cambridge.
He lives with his wife in St Albans.
