Richard Reeves is a writer, commentator and speaker. His latest book is John Stuart Mill – Victorian Firebrand, an intellectual biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician. Richard’s other principal areas of current interest are the economics and politics of wellbeing; trends in British politics; and the future of the workplace.

Richard is an essayist for the New Statesman magazine and editor-at-large and columnist for Management Today, for which he writes a monthly column. He is also a regular contributor to The Guardian, Observer and Prospect magazine as well as a range of national radio and television programmes. In 2005, he was a presenter of the four-part BBC2 series, Making Slough Happy.

In 2006, Richard was selected by The Guardian as a ‘Thinker to Watch’ and was featured in the paper’s regular ‘Ideas Interview’. He is also a former Columnist of the Year and Young Financial Journalist of the Year. Richard is the author of Happy Mondays – putting the pleasure back into work (2001) nominated as a Sunday Times business book of the week and described by Theodore Zeldin as a 'wonderful book - optimistic, wise and thoughtful.' Other publications include CoCo Companies - Work, Happiness and Employee Ownership (2007), Papering over the Cracks, Rules, Regulation and Real Trust (2006, with Edward Smith), ‘Good work and professional work’ in Production Values (2006, with John Knell), and The Politics of Happiness (2003).

Current European Business Speaker of the Year, Richard speaks to commercial audiences on a range of topics, including happy business, leadership, employee engagement, working time, gender equality and the future of work. Richard also works with John Knell in an intellectual joint venture, Intelligence Agency, for a range of corporate and public sector clients.

Richard is a former Director of Futures at The Work Foundation, Society Editor of The Observer, principal policy adviser to the Minister for Welfare Reform, Economics Correspondent and Washington Correspondent of The Guardian, research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, one of the UK’s premier think-tanks, and a postgraduate researcher at the University of London.