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 contributes regularly to the FT, and also writes for business school publications.
As the FT's Management Writer from 1998-2006, Alison built the newspaper's global coverage of corporate responsibility and women's progress in the corporate world.
She has written a number of series on business ethics and on the ageing workforce, and led special reports, including Responsible Business, Business and Diversity and Business and Development. 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 was food and agriculture correspondent 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.
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