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Mrs Moneypenny is a former investment banker and has an MBA from the London Business School and a PhD from the University of Hong Kong. She is a visiting 
professor at Cass, City University Business School, and a trustee of a major educational charity. She is married to a wine merchant who plays a lot of golf, and has three children who she refers to as the Cost Centres.
Mrs M began writing for the Financial Times in 1999 while still based in Tokyo. Subsequently, she returned to the UK and bought into a small but profitable business in the West End of London, where she was the youngest and worst-groomed of four owner-directors. She later led a management buyout and is now the majority owner. She is the author of Mrs Moneypenny: Survival in the City (2003), and Mrs Moneypenny: Email from Tokyo, (2006). Her column appears every week in the FT Weekend Magazine. - -
Now you are all in danger of a flying visit
Mrs Moneypenny is delighted that she is now a qualified pilot who can take passengers along with her as she cruises the skies of central England
Why my shooting days are all in a Nobel cause
Oliver Williamson, the winner of this year’s economics prize, inspired Mrs Moneypenny to spend one day a week killing birds alongside captains of industry
What every teenager really, really wants to know
For Cost Centre #2’s birthday, Mrs Moneypenny employs the help of a friend who brings pizza, cake and probably the best present a 15-year-old boy could hope for
Nano-canapés (and no fizz) with the Tory party people
Hosting a fringe event at her first political party conference, Mrs Moneypenny is outraged when the refreshments turn out to be inadequate as well as overpriced
Lay off bankers’ bonuses – they’ll help pay back the budget deficit
Mrs Moneypenny wants us to admit that our only problem with bankers’ pay is we are jealous that we don’t earn that much ourselves
Supper with the supermodels in New York City
Attending a charity event, Mrs Moneypenny feels somewhat inadequate next to her successful dinner companions, who are older but look years younger
Archbishops and comedians need not apply
In spite of the recession, Mrs Moneypenny has added two new faces to her team after realising that it would be short-sighted to stop hiring and training young people
A difficult lesson in tough love
Mrs Moneypenny learns that she has to cut herself off, emotionally and financially, from an alcohol-dependent relative until he genuinely wants to help himself
The strange case of the suspicious underpants
Returning from a weekend trip to the Riviera, Mrs Moneypenny has some explaining to do after unpacking a pair of white boxer shorts in front of a startled Mr M
How to keep young guns happy in the holidays
Mrs Moneypenny suggests sending bored 14- and 15-year-olds off to help take delivery of pheasants, get rid of vermin and shoot pigeons and rabbits
