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Sarah O'Connor Speaker

Sarah O'Connor Keynote Speaker

  • Columnist, reporter and associate editor at the Financial Times.
  • Recipient of several awards including a British Press Award and the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils.
  • Popular speaker on the changing world of work, demography, economics and social policy.

Sarah O'Connor's Biography

Sarah O’Connor is a columnist and associate editor at the Financial Times, where she writes about the changing world of work, demography, economics and social policy.

Sarah studied Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University and joined the FT in 2007. She was just in time to witness the end of the financial boom and to help document the subsequent collapse of the global economy. She covered the US economy from Washington DC, the UK economy from London and the financial crisis from Iceland.

She has received several awards for her work, including the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils, the Wincott Award for financial journalism, Business Commentator of the Year at the Comment Awards, Financial/Economic story of the year at the Foreign Press Awards and Business and Finance Journalist of the year at the British Press Awards.

Sarah is a popular speaker on topics including economics, business, demography and the future of work.

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Sarah O'Connor's Speaking Topics

  • The future of work: utopia or dystopia?

  • What artificial intelligence means for our jobs

  • Economic policymaking in an age of insecurity

  • Health, longevity and economic growth

  • The impact on the labour market of the transition to net zero

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