Richard Reeves
Richard Reeves was recognized as European Business Speaker of the Year in 2007. His career spans business, the media, academia, central government, and the non-profit sector. He is the co-founder of Intelligence Agency, an ideas consultancy, and has worked with Accenture, ICI, Microsoft, Orange, PricewaterhouseCoopers, BT, the NHS, GE Capital, and a wide range of other organizations on corporate strategy and organizational change.
Reeves was recently appointed Director of the think-tank Demos, a think-tank with a vision of "a democracy of free citizens, with an equal stake in society." He is also a columnist and editor at large for Management Today, an essayist for the New Statesman, and writes regularly for The Guardian, Prospect, and other publications. He has taught on Senior Executive Programme and MBA Programme at London Business School, and speaks frequently on a broad range of topics including the wellbeing, the future of work, motivation, diversity, working time, and leadership.
He is the author of John Stuart Mill - Victorian Firebrand, an intellectual biography of Britain's greatest liberal, which has been shortlisted for the C4 Political Books of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is also author of Happy Mondays - putting the pleasure back into work, nominated as a Sunday Times business book of the week, in addition to a number of research papers for the Work Foundation on trust, working time, and gender equality.
He holds a degree in geography from Wadham College, Oxford University, and is well-known in Britian as a journalist. Former economics correspondent of the The Guardian and an editor of the Observer, he has won a number of prizes for his journalism.
Reeves worked as principle policy adviser to the Minister for Welfare Reform and has also been a research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, one of the UK's premier think-tanks, and the University of London.
"A fine new biography," (The New Yorker) finally available in paperback...Richard Reeves's beautifully written book is the definitive life of one of the heroic giants of Victorian England. A young activist and highly-educated Cambridge Union debater, Mill would become in time the highest-ranked English thinker of the nineteenth century, the author of the landmark essay "On Liberty" and one of the most passionate reformers and advocates of his revolutionary, opinionated age. As a journalist he fired off a weekly article on Irish land reform as the people of that nation starved, as an MP he introduced the first vote on women's suffrage, fought to preserve free-speech and opposed slavery, and, in his private life, pursued for two decades a love affair with another man's wife. Exploring Mill's life and work in tandem, Reeves's book is a riveting and authoritative biography of a man raised to promote happiness, whose life was spent in the pursuit of truth and liberty for all.
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