Richard Reeves
Richard Reeves is a writer, commentator and speaker. His latest
book is John Stuart Mill – Victorian Firebrand, an intellectual
biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician.
Richard’s other principal areas of current interest are the
economics and politics of wellbeing; trends in British politics;
and the future of the workplace.
Richard is an essayist for the New Statesman magazine and
editor-at-large and columnist for Management Today, for which he
writes a monthly column. He is also a regular contributor to the
Guardian, the Observer, and Prospect magazine as well as a range of
national radio and television programmes. In 2005, he was a
presenter of the four-part BBC2 series, Making Slough Happy.
In 2006, Richard was selected by the Guardian as a ‘Thinker to
Watch’ and was featured in the paper’s regular ‘Ideas Interview’.
He is also a former Columnist of the Year and Young Financial
Journalist of the Year. Richard is the author of Happy Mondays –
putting the pleasure back into work (2001) nominated as a Sunday
Times business book of the week and described by Theodore Zeldin as
a 'wonderful book - optimistic, wise and thoughtful.' Other
publications include CoCo Companies - Work, Happiness and Employee
Ownership (2007), Papering over the Cracks, Rules, Regulation and
Real Trust (2006, with Edward Smith), ‘Good work and professional
work’ in Production Values (2006, with John Knell), and The
Politics of Happiness (2003).
Current European Business Speaker of the Year, Richard speaks to
commercial audiences on a range of topics, including happy
business, leadership, employee engagement, working time, gender
equality and the future of work. Richard also works with John Knell
in an intellectual joint venture, Intelligence Agency, for a range
of corporate and public sector clients.
Richard is a former director of futures at The Work Foundation,
Society Editor of The Observer, Principal Policy Adviser to the
Minister for Welfare Reform, Economics Correspondent and Washington
Correspondent of the Guardian, a research fellow at the Institute
for Public Policy Research, one of the UK’s premier think tanks,
and a postgraduate researcher at the University of London.