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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 Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
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