Biography
For over 30 years Lucy Kellaway was a journalist on the Financial Times where she wrote award winning columns skewering management practices, interviewed captains of industry and invented the cult fictional character, Martin Lukes.
In 2016 she co-founded Now Teach, a charity to persuade older professionals to retrain as teachers in challenging schools.
In 2017 she quit the FT to become a teacher in a comprehensive school in Hackney, where she now teaches economics. She still writes regularly for the FT and elsewhere and broadcasts on the BBC on educational matters.
Kellaway was on the board of Admiral plc for 9 years, and is a trustee of FLIC, a campaign to improve financial literacy.
She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to education.