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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 on how human capital drives the competitive advantage of investment banks.
She is a visiting lecturer on the Cass MBA programme and has written for a variety of publications since 1984.
She worked for a prominent European investment bank as a securities analyst for eight years in London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. The second of her three sons arrived early in the middle of a GDR offering from an Indian company and she completed the transaction, breast pump in briefcase.
She was a launch columnist for the FT’s former weekly magazine, The Business, and later bought into a small but profitable business in the West End, where she was the youngest and worst-groomed of four owner-directors. She has subsequently led a management buyout and is now the majority owner.
She is the author of Mrs Moneypenny: Survival in the City in 2003, and the forthcoming Mrs Moneypenny: Email from Tokyo. Her column appears every week in the FT Magazine. - -
The domino theory of teenage nutrition
Parenting is a tough business for many, Mrs M included, so suppress the urge to judge pizza parents too quickly
Why I take a stern line on mortgages and men
Mrs M says the British, just like the Americans, have lent money irresponsibly to people who could never repay it
The Best-Laid Childcare Plans of Mothers and Men ...
Just like magazine redesigns, Mrs M’s business trip involved careful planning, attention to detail and hard work
Fiscal jerks
For Mrs M, the real issue faced by the people living in the UK and registered as non-domiciled is not how they are taxed but how they are regarded
Heights of power
Mrs M wears a pair of high-heeled shoes to a lunch hosted for Madame Sarkozy, but finds them neither as warm nor as comfortable as her Wellington boots
The secret of longevity
A television ad for erectile dysfunction helps answer Mrs M’s particularly intriguing question in her fascination with the Eliot Spitzer saga
Strategic play
Mrs M is surprisingly supportive of Mr M’s golfing ambitions as they enter the FT Corporate Golf Championship – but it is not golf that is on her mind
Read my lips
Mrs M rarely has time for novels, but she makes an exception for one on lesbian robots by a new friend who also owns a bespoke sandwich shop
Mind the gaps
After realising that Mr M cannot even recall the full name of his first wife, Mrs M holds out little hope that he will remember their 20th wedding anniversary
A place fit for heroes
Mrs M believes that a monument to Sir Keith Park will be a more appropriate occupant of Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth than modern art
