Lucy Kellaway (born 26 June 1959) is a British journalist turned teacher. She remains listed as a management columnist at the Financial Times (FT), and became a trainee teacher in a secondary school in 2017. She is a co-founder of the educational charity Now Teach. During her career in journalism, she has worked as energy correspondent, Brussels correspondent, a Lex writer, and interviewer of business people and celebrities, all with the FT. She is best known for her satirical commentaries on the limitations of modern corporate culture. She is a regular commentator on the BBC World Service daily business programme Business Daily. Biography Early life and career Kellaway was born in London, a daughter of Australians Bill and Deborah Kellaway, a writer on gardening. Her sister is the critic and The Observer writer Kate Kellaway. Kellaway attended Camden School for Girls, where her mother taught English, and then Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). After initially working at the foreign exchange dealing room of Morgan Guaranty and at the Investors Chronicle, Kellaway won the Wincott Young Financial Journalist Award in 1984. At the Financial Times From 1985, she worked for the FT, where she wrote the Monday column "Lucy Kellaway on Management". Some years later, a satirical column purporting to be the emails of Martin Lukes, a senior manager in a company called A&B (later expensively re-branded to a-b glöbâl) would appear on Thursdays. It was revealed in 2005 that these were written by Kellaway (see below). At the British Press Awards 2006, Kellaway was named Columnist of the Year. She wrote the "Dear Lucy" column, in which she adopts the point of view of a business agony aunt in response to letters sent by readers. Kellaway has won the Work Foundation's Workworld Media Award twice. Author Kellaway wrote the management book Sense and Nonsense in the Office which was published in 1999. Her second book was a satirical novel in emails: Martin Lukes: Who Moved My BlackBerry? (July 2005). Martin Lukes stands for every male manager trying to scramble to the top of the greasy pole. He is driven by ambition. He has little self-doubt—and even less self-knowledge. He thinks of himself as highly emotionally intelligent but has no idea how he is coming across. He is hungry for money, but more hungry for recognition. He wants people to love him and to