Speaker Details

Gillian de Bono joined the Financial Times in 1994 to set up a magazine department following the success of a trial issue of how to spend it for the Weekend FT. Previously, she spent 13 years launching, relaunching and editing women's glossy magazines.

 

Ms de Bono spent her formative journalist years at Consumers' Association, publishers of Which? magazine, where, as a writer, she was awarded the first Rosemary Goodchild Award in 1986 for the year's best article on women's health.

 

She has received three British Society of Magazine Editors awards - as Launch Editor of the Year in 1986 for Essentials magazine and as Newspaper Magazine Editor of the Year in 1999 and 2004 for how to spend it. 

 

how to spend it was also named Colour Supplement of the Year at the Newspaper Awards in 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010, and at the British Press Awards in 2004, making it the only colour supplement to win all three major industry awards in a single year.