Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to main contentSkip to footer
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • Israeli military’s former top lawyer arrested over leaked prisoner video
    • OpenAI strikes $38bn computing deal with Amazon
    • Starmer fuels expectations of income tax rise in the Budget
    • City bosses warn on pay as UK minimum wage closes in on graduate salaries
    • Businesses press Supreme Court to strike down Trump’s emergency tariff power
  • US
    Sections
    • US Home
    • US Economy
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
    Most Read
    • OpenAI strikes $38bn computing deal with Amazon
    • Businesses press Supreme Court to strike down Trump’s emergency tariff power
    • Miami realtors pitch safe spaces for millionaires fleeing Mamdani’s New York
    • Books, malls and cars: where the physical world still rules
    • Palantir lifts 2025 sales outlook after posting strong quarterly growth
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • OpenAI strikes $38bn computing deal with Amazon
    • City bosses warn on pay as UK minimum wage closes in on graduate salaries
    • Inside Black Cube: how notorious intelligence firm rakes in client fees
    • Hedge fund Millennium sells 15% stake to top investors
    • Miami realtors pitch safe spaces for millionaires fleeing Mamdani’s New York
  • Tech
    Sections
    • Tech Home
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
    Most Read
    • OpenAI strikes $38bn computing deal with Amazon
    • Is China about to win the race?
    • China offers tech giants cheap power to boost domestic AI chips
    • Palantir lifts 2025 sales outlook after posting strong quarterly growth
    • US allows Microsoft to ship Nvidia AI chips to use in UAE for first time
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Monetary Policy Radar
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    Most Read
    • Hedge fund Millennium sells 15% stake to top investors
    • London becomes ‘quant’ powerhouse as traders rake in revenues
    • AstraZeneca wins shareholder approval for New York listing
    • The UK bank bashing must stop
    • UBS chair warns of ‘looming systemic risk’ from private credit ratings
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • The far right can win in Europe but it struggles to govern
    • The Renters’ Rights Act risks creating a two-tier rental market
    • Books, malls and cars: where the physical world still rules
    • Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is a major own goal
    • The US right should stop fearing the female
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
    Most Read
    • ‘We’re the invisible ones’: the chiefs of staff running the world’s biggest companies
    • Coffee commotion puts German view of venture capital under scrutiny
    • Sí, oui, ja! You can learn a language late in life
    • Pearson chief: ‘The majority of kids are not supported sufficiently’
    • Wharton tops FT ranking of business schools with impact
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Puzzles
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • Miami realtors pitch safe spaces for millionaires fleeing Mamdani’s New York
    • Is David Solomon’s DJ-ing career getting scratched out?
    • Carlsen triumphs in St Louis while Kasparov criticises Kramnik
    • ‘Fresco. Palazzo. For Sale. Go’
    • An Odessa File sequel, spies in Paris and Fleet Street in peril — the latest thriller round-up
  • HTSI
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • US
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • HTSI
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

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 X.com (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Sunday, 2 November, 2025
    Managing yourself
    Sí, oui, ja! You can learn a language late in life

    Don’t be put off by age or the myth of perfectionism

    Illustration of four books balancing on an old man’s head titled Mandarin Chinese, Dictionary, How to Talk, and Making Conversation
  • Wednesday, 29 October, 2025
    Renewable energy
    Cheaper, greener power is on the way

    As long as anti-net zero populists don’t throttle it in the cradle

    Andy Carter illustration showing a person relaxing on a solar-panel lounge chair atop a large battery, surrounded by green leaves
  • Sunday, 26 October, 2025
    Social affairs
    Not another work email with exclamation marks!

    It turns out there is less to worry about than you might think

    Illustration of the word ‘thanks!’ with the point of the exclamation mark as the head of a person enthusiastically typing on a laptop
  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Four hopeful guides to tackling climate change

    From India’s lightbulb moment to what the wine world can do better — a selection of the best new books on the environment

    Three book covers about sustainability: Clearing the Air, Rooted in Change, and The New Global Possible.
  • Sunday, 5 October, 2025
    Working from home
    What if working from home was a legal right?

    An Australian state is planning a new hybrid work law despite an angry business outcry

    Illustration of an apartment building with thumbs up in all the windows
  • Sunday, 28 September, 2025
    Managing yourself
    There is no shame in sleeping late

    Bosses who get up at 4am deserve more pity than praise

    Illustration of a chicken with a human head standing on a bed and saying ‘CEO!!’ while it is dark outside
  • Thursday, 18 September, 2025
    FT SeriesThe FT Magazine’s Coffee Guide
    Confessions of the FT’s coffee geeks

    How Martin Wolf, Jemima Kelly, Robert Smith and other FT writers fell under the spell of speciality coffee  

    Man in a white shirt drinking a cup in a kitchen
  • Sunday, 14 September, 2025
    Work & Careers
    Memo to women: get ready to work for free again

    The gender pay gap is tediously persistent and worse than we thought

    Illustration of a woman staring at a small bag of cash while someone snatches away a bigger bag of cash from the table
  • Sunday, 7 September, 2025
    Management
    HR is not for wimps

    The people we love to hate are really getting it in the neck these days

    Illustration of a person with a bulging bicep pointing upwards, with the arm forming the axis of a chart that has a zigzag upward line
  • Sunday, 31 August, 2025
    Future of work
    Why you should be glad if your next boss is a young striver

    Today’s newest workers have overcome hurdles that would have seemed preposterous to their older colleagues

    Illustration of a teenager wearing a cap on backwards sat at a large desk with a placard reading CEO while looking at their phone
  • Sunday, 24 August, 2025
    Work & Careers
    What a bunch of clunkers

    Branding fiascos will never go away as long as companies keep putting their customers last

    Illustration of a frustrated person at their laptop with their facial features drawn as lettering and punctation
  • Thursday, 21 August, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The true cost of the car and a drive for change — new environment books

    The history of snow, power of the sun and our motor vehicle addiction

    A row of book covers
  • Tuesday, 19 August, 2025
    COP30
    Good COP, worse COP

    A clamour to rethink global climate policy is exactly what we need

    Andy Carter illustration of a group of people all helping each other out of the smog below and to reach up to a light bulb Earth, representing positive ideas for a bright environmental future.
  • Sunday, 17 August, 2025
    Business travel
    The race between commuters and tourists is unwinnable

    But the contest always feels worse in summer

    Illustration of a frustrated commuter using a pogo stick to spring over a crowd of tourists
  • Wednesday, 13 August, 2025
    Climate change
    UN plastics treaty is being hampered by climate obstruction tactics

    Conflicting interests are coming to a head as countries attempt to end the scourge of pollution

    Andy Carter illustration of the planet being squeezed by rings of plastic usually used to hold canned drinks together
  • Sunday, 10 August, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Can we just have one day when no one mentions AI?

    The gap between hype and reality is frustratingly wide and growing

    Illustration of a person with their feet up on the desk, smiling and clapping and repeating the word ‘AI’, while someone walks past looking concerned and saying ‘ok . . . ‘
  • Saturday, 9 August, 2025
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Is there a case for climate optimism?

    Two books argue that despite the gloom, environmental progress is still possible through science and diplomacy

  • Monday, 4 August, 2025
    The Economics Show podcast36 min listen
    Development funding is in crisis. What now? With Mark Suzman

    Global leaders have come up with a to-do list of reforms. Will they work?

  • Sunday, 3 August, 2025
    Work & Careers
    The business font of all evil has won

    Comic Sans is never going to be as reviled as its critics would like

  • Sunday, 27 July, 2025
    Work & Careers
    The truly worrying thing about the Coldplay concert scandal

    The wild afterlife of the affair incident shows we need to do more to confront online rot

    Illustration of two people in hoodies and their faces covered high-fiving while holding a phone
  • Sunday, 20 July, 2025
    Work & Careers
    A fresh phone hell in the office

    Younger workers who don’t say hello when they answer a call need to know it’s a problem

    An illustration of a person nervously peeking over the edge of a desk where a phone rings and vibrates loudly with a ‘Brrrrrr’
  • 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
Previous page1Next page

Join us at an FT Live event

Discover unmissable flagship events and members only communities to expand your thinking and elevate your career

FT Live
The Financial Times & SAP COP30 Networking Reception
A critical gathering to exchange insights and reflect on progress
Wednesday, 12 NovemberTv. Dr. Moraes, 294 - Nazaré, Belém - PA, 66035-080, Brazil
Explore all events

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareersSuppliers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

Tools

PortfolioFT AppFT Digital EditionFT EditAlerts HubBusiness School RankingsSubscription ManagerNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT Live EventsFT ForumsFT Leaders Academy

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2025. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Edition:International
UK
Subscribe for full access

Top sections

  • Home
  • World
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
  • US
    • US Economy
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Monetary Policy Radar
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Puzzles
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
  • HTSI
  • Special Reports

FT recommends

  • Alphaville
  • FT Edit
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • Visual and data journalism
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Schools
  • FT Live Events
  • FT Forums
  • FT Leaders Academy
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • FT Digital Edition
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In