| Reena SenGupta CEO, RSG Consulting Reena SenGupta is an expert analyst of the legal profession. A journalist, editor and entrepreneur, she has a twenty year history of designing ground-breaking research and reports. Many of her projects have begun to drive change the legal profession. For example, she devised the idea of ranking lawyers by innovation, which is now the FT Innovative Lawyers Reports. Ms SenGupta founded RSG Consulting in 2001 to give research, writing and consulting services to the legal profession. She created the research methodology and editorial format that underpin all the Chambers and Partners Guides whilst serving as Editor and Publishing Director from 1995-2001. She is a regular contributor of feature articles to the FT. For the past 13 years, she has consulted to major private practice law firms in Europe and the US on strategy, business development and differentiation. In emerging markets, she helps law firms modernise and develop their practices internationally. Her most recent creation is the Innovative GC Club, a unique forum of European general counsel. She is a regular speaker on the profession and has a mission to make lawyers more innovative. An accredited business coach, she was a Media Professional finalist in the Asian Women of Achievement awards in 2009. She also serves as a non-executive director on Ladies Who Learn, a London-based charity helping disadvantaged women get into the workplace. |
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| Michael Skapinker Assistant Editor, Financial Times Michael Skapinker is a Financial Times Assistant Editor, a columnist and Editor of the FT’s special reports. He was born in South Africa and educated at Witwatersrand and Cambridge universities. He began his journalistic career in Greece and joined the FT in London in 1986. He received the Work Foundation Members’ Award for his contribution to the understanding of working life and was named Columnist of the Year at the 2008 WorkWorld Media Awards and Business Commentator of the Year at the 2012 Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards. His column on business and society appears in the FT on Thursdays. |
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Angela Mackay Managing Director, Financial Times Angela Mackay is the Managing Director of the Financial Times and Publisher, Professional Education in Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong and a member of the FT’s global board, Mackay focuses on developing the significant potential for FT’s operations in the region. This includes the furthering of FT Chinese as a channel for English language and professional education, as well as expanding the combination of FT content and English learning for corporates. Mackay recently led the FT’s corporate partnership with Nikkei, where content from both news organisations is used as a language learning tool for the Japanese business community through Pearson’s GlobalEnglish products. Prior to this newly combined role, Mackay spent seven years as the FT’s managing director in Asia Pacific, where she led the FT’s business operations in the region, and before that she led the region’s advertising operations as commercial director. She joined the FT in 2003 on its editorial team, serving as the Asia investment editor for two years. Before joining the FT, Mackay was Asia editor for Sunday Business from 1998 to 2001. Other positions she has held include contributor to the Sunday Telegraph, editor at The Economist Group, supervising producer at CNBC, deputy news editor at The Times newspaper in London, UK correspondent for the Australian Financial Review and speechwriter for ministers in the Hong Kong government. She began her career in journalism as a graduate cadet on the Australian Financial Review in Sydney. Mackay is currently a member of the Pearson Asia Pacific ABC Committee and on the boards of the HK International Literary Festival, Common Purpose and the Sovereign Art Foundation. Mackay graduated with a BA in English Literature and an LLB, and was admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia. |
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