Pilita Clark – Keynote Speaker

Pilita Clark is an associate editor at the Financial Times where she writes a weekly column on business life, as well as features and other articles.

In her 18 years at the FT she has held a number of senior editing and reporting positions, including deputy news editor, aerospace correspondent and environment correspondent.

From 2011 -2017 Pilita Clark was Environment Correspondent , covering issues ranging from climate change and renewable energy to wildlife and recycling, with a particular focus on the impact of low carbon policies on businesses and investors. She was previously the FT’s Aerospace Correspondent, Deputy News Editor on the main news desk, and Deputy Editor of the FT Magazine. Before joining the FT in 2003, Ms Clark was a Senior Writer for the Sydney Morning Herald, where she was a Political Reporter in Washington DC and Canberra. She was also Managing Editor of The Eye news magazine in Sydney, and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Her environmental 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.