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Isabel Berwick

Editor, Work & Careers

Isabel Berwick is Work & Careers editor, overseeing a department that covers management, leadership, working life, graduate careers - and the huge issue of the future of work. She is the host of the FT's Working It podcast and co-writes the weekly Working It newsletter. She is editorial co-lead on the 50/50 Equality Project, which works towards more representation of diverse voices in the FT, and is editorial lead for the FT Women in Business Forum.

Isabel joined the FT in 1999 from the Independent on Sunday, where she was business editor. She held several senior editing roles on FT Weekend and the Opinion desk before taking up her current post in 2018.

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