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Andrew Hill

Senior Business Writer

Andrew Hill is senior business writer at the FT and consulting editor, FT Live. He is a former management editor, City editor, financial editor and comment and analysis editor. He is the author of ‘Leadership in the Headlines’ (2016), a collection of his columns, ‘Ruskinland’ (2019), about the enduring influence of Victorian thinker John Ruskin, and 'Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand' (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.

Email Andrew Hill @andrewtghill  on X.com (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Monday, 4 May, 2026
    Business books
    Control Science — a one-sided case against managers

    From the inspection towers of 19th-century factories to the data architecture of Amazon warehouses, Henry Snow casts those who surveil workers as capitalism’s villains

  • Monday, 27 April, 2026
    The Bracken Prize for Young Authors 2026
    FT and Standard Chartered Bracken Prize for young authors opens to entries

    Award will go to the best original business book proposal by an author aged under 35

    Logos for Financial Times, Standard Chartered, and Nikkei with text reading "The Bracken Prize" on a dark blue background with a pen illustration.
  • Monday, 27 April, 2026
    Corporate governance
    Should your board appoint a bot?

    New AI tools help chairs and directors with prep and research but are unlikely to be granted a vote

    Illustration in bird’s eye view of a people in business clothes sat round a computer chip as a boardroom table
  • Wednesday, 15 April, 2026
    Artificial intelligence
    The CEO chatbot era is coming

    Many executives will be following Meta’s plans for an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg with interest

    Andrew Hill
    Mark Zuckerberg adjusts smart glasses against a blue background with a digital dot pattern, rendered in an AI-generated texture style.
  • Monday, 13 April, 2026
    FT Business Book of the Year Award
    Breaking cover: the future of the business book

    Authors are experimenting with new technology and formats to better communicate ideas

    Illustration of five books with tiny figures exploring them, interacting with an interface, recording a podcast and delivering a lecture
  • Friday, 27 March, 2026
    Business books
    Business books: what to read this month

    Scaling innovation, the problem with philanthropy and top tips for communication at work

    Four business book covers are displayed side by side, featuring titles by Erin McGoff; Linda A. Hill, Emily Tedards, and Jason Wild; Glen Galaich; and Jon McNeill
  • Sunday, 8 March, 2026
    The CEO
    Interview. Geopolitical hit to travel is ‘temporary’, says CEO of world’s largest visa processor

    VFS boss Zubin Karkaria is confident global migration will remain resilient despite new tensions

    Zubin Karkaria sits on a sofa in front of bookshelves, flanked by orange cushions and two lamps, at the St James’ Court hotel in London
  • Tuesday, 27 January, 2026
    Business books
    Business Books: what to read this month

    Goal-setting with intention, corporate scandals with impact, and companies with tentacles

    Covers of five business books: "Billionaire Backlash" by Pepper Culpepper, "Do More in Four" by Joe O’Connor and Jared Lindzon, "Capital Evolution" by Seth Levine and Elizabeth MacBride, "Intentional" by Chris Bailey, and "The Octopus Organization" by Phil Le-Brun and Jana Werner.
  • Wednesday, 14 January, 2026
    FT & Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year 2026
    FT book award enters new partnership with Standard Chartered

    Bank to back Business Book of the Year and Bracken Prize for Young Authors for next three years

    Illustration of a book on a pedestal with its cover reading: ‘Business book of the year 2026’, with the Financial Times and Standard Chartered logo above it and ‘in partnership with Nikkei’ written below
  • Wednesday, 10 December, 2025
    The Story of Money podcast30 min listen
    Business Book of the Year: Author Stephen Witt on Nvidia’s rise

    Hear from the winner of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year

  • Tuesday, 9 December, 2025
    The CEO
    Interview. UK stairlift maker Stannah hands controls to first non-family CEOs

    Jon and Sam Stannah step up to board level in shake-up designed to boost governance and accountability

    Jon Stannah and Sam Stannah sit outdoors in business attire with tall grasses and London architecture in the background.
  • Friday, 5 December, 2025
    FT & Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year 2026
    Interview. In future ‘books could respond’ says winning author Stephen Witt

    Writer of ‘The Thinking Machine’ about Nvidia’s rise believes in the vast potential of AI

    Stephen Witt sits in a chair looking to the side, wearing a light blue shirt and grey trousers.
  • Thursday, 4 December, 2025
    Executive Pay
    Executive pay has gone galactic

    Elon Musk’s $1tn incentive plan supercharges a long history of rewards driving up executive pay

    Andrew Hill
    Montage image of Elon Musk, 100-dollar banknotes, and an upward arrow
  • Wednesday, 3 December, 2025
    FT & Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year 2026
    Stephen Witt wins FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year

    ‘The Thinking Machine’ tells the inside story of how Nvidia became the world’s most valuable corporation

    Stephen Witt sits at a table with stacks of his book, ‘The Thinking Machine’, preparing to sign a copy.
  • Sunday, 30 November, 2025
    The CEO
    Interview. Logitech CEO: ‘The mouse built this house’

    Hanneke Faber says Swiss company known for everyday tech will become the ‘eyes, ears and hands’ of AI

    Hanneke Faber stands on a rooftop with city skyscrapers in the background, wearing a white blouse and dark trousers.
  • Wednesday, 26 November, 2025
    Fiction
    Who says management consultants can’t be literary heroes?

    Dickens and Gaskell engaged with the everyday realities of 19th-century industrial capitalism, yet the dramas of today’s entrepreneurial workplaces rarely make it on to the page

  • Friday, 21 November, 2025
    Business books
    Business books: what to read this month

    Caring for employees, intentional philanthropy, and a guide from England’s former manager

    Covers of five books: A Talent for Giving, Built on Purpose, Dear England, Beyond Profit, and The Caring Company, displayed side by side.
  • Monday, 17 November, 2025
    The best books of the year 2025
    The best business books to read this year

    Andrew Hill selects his must-read titles

  • Tuesday, 28 October, 2025
    Business books
    From opioids to tainted talc: how Johnson & Johnson lost the trust of consumers

    A former New York Times reporter accuses the US company of corporate gaslighting on an epic scale in his book ‘No More Tears’

    Red Johnson & Johnson logo in script font mounted on a rooftop against a blue sky with scattered clouds.
  • Sunday, 26 October, 2025
    The CEO
    Interview. The ‘blue-collar CEO’ trying to fix Kodak

    Turnaround specialist Jim Continenza is focused on putting the brand back on the right path

    Jim Continenza, CEO of Kodak, poses in front of Kodak-themed wall displays at Kodak HQ.
  • Friday, 24 October, 2025
    Business books
    Business books: What to read this month

    Reducing workplace excess, capturing the power of play, and marketing from one of its masters

    Alt text: Covers of five business books including "Governing the Machine," "The Art of Less," "The Seven Rules of Trust," "Playful," and one by Alex Schultz.
  • Monday, 6 October, 2025
    Leadership
    The make-believe backstories CEOs spin

    Colourful details about a boss’s past are rarely unique and may achieve little

    Andrew Hill
    Michael Palin, John Cleese, Eric Idle, and Terry Jones perform the Four Yorkshiremen sketch on stage at The O2 Arena, wearing white dinner jackets.
  • Tuesday, 30 September, 2025
    Business books
    Business books: what to read this month

    Finding courage, embracing your dark side, and coming out top in a digital age

    Montage image of this month’s book covers
  • Wednesday, 24 September, 2025
    FT & Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year 2026
    FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 — the shortlist

    Six finalists analyse important business issues from economic warfare to AI

    Montage of the covers of the six books on the shortlist
  • Monday, 25 August, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Inside DHL’s AI upgrade: ‘Love it or hate it, you have to work with it’

    The German delivery company says artificial intelligence is not taking jobs, but filling gaps in a stretched workforce

    Montage image of yellow DHL vans and a person scanning a parcel for delivery against a background of technology network lines
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