Alison is a freelance journalist who writes about people, business and management issues. She spent 20 years on the staff of the Financial Times, as a news editor, reporter and feature writer. She continues to contribute to the FT, and also writes for other publications and websites, including The Conference Board Review.
She specialises in the changing workforce and workplace and wrote the Working Better (2009) report for Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission. She researched and wrote the Managers’ Guide to Flexible Working (2009) and wrote The Over-50s, The New Work Generation (2010), also for the Commission.
She has written several series on business ethics and on the ageing workforce, and led special reports, including Responsible Business, Business and Diversity and Business and Development for the Financial Times. In 2004, she and the FT features team won The Conference Board Europe's first media award "for having raised awareness and public consciousness of the issues of diversity and work-life balance".
Alison has interviewed many leading figures, including Al Gore, Carly Fiorina (then CEO of Hewlett-Packard), Niall FitzGerald (then chairman of Unilever), Stelios Haji Ioannou, Sir Terry Leahy (Tesco), Lord Chris Patten, Dame Stella Rimington (former head of MI5), Sir Stuart Rose (Marks & Spencer), and Daniel Vasella (CEO of Novartis).
In her earlier FT career, Alison was responsible for editorial coverage of world stock markets at the time of the 1987 global crash and covered food and agriculture at the height of the crises over BSE and GM foods.
Before joining the FT, she was a correspondent with Reuters, the international news agency, in London and Paris, having trained in journalism on the Liverpool Daily Post & Echo.
Some of her writing is available to download, under “Recent Articles” on this page.
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