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Isabel Berwick is Work & Careers editor, overseeing a department that covers management, leadership, working life and the future of work as well as the FT's flagship business school rankings and coverage of the business education sector.

She joined the personal finance team at the FT in 1999 from the Independent on Sunday, where she was personal finance editor and then business editor. She has held senior editing roles on FT Weekend and the Opinion desk.

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