Simon Targett
Simon Targett (born 1964) is a British writer, journalist and historian.
Life and Career
Targett was born in Bristol but grew up in north London, attending Southgate School, a comprehensive. He read history at Sussex University, graduated with a Ph.D in history from Selwyn College, Cambridge, and completed a diploma in journalism from City University.[1]
He worked at the Times Higher Education Supplement before joining the Financial Times as education correspondent in 1996.[2] Over the next 12 years, he served in various roles, including investment correspondent, launch editor of FTfm (the Financial Times fund management supplement)[3], features editor[4], editor of ft.com[5], and editor of supplements and special reports[6]. He was appointed Assistant Editor in 2005 and Associate Editor in 2006.[7]
In 2008, Targett joined the Boston Consulting Group as the firm's first global editor-in-chief[8], and worked as a collaborative writer on The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating The Newly Affluent in India and China (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012)[9], which was placed among the ten books on the annual JP Morgan Private Bank Summer Reading List in 2013[10].
In 2014, he founded Thinking Cap Communications, a London-based content development firm that works with senior executives to develop, publish and promote their big ideas in books, articles and other media.
As a journalist, he has written not only for the Financial Times but also for The Economist, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, among other titles. As a historian, he writes and speaks on a range of Anglo-American topics, including the founding of America, the Pilgrims, London merchants from 1500-1800, the rise of the British Empire, the first British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole, and the history of the British press. He has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography[11] and the Historical Journal[12], among other publications.
Publications
New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers (Little, Brown, 2018) ISBN-10: 0316307882 and ISBN-13: 978-0316307888[13]
Collaborative Writer
Michael J. Silverstein, Abheek Singhi, Carol Liao, David Michael with Simon Targett, The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India (Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, Mass., 2012) ISBN-10: 1422187055 and ISBN-13: 978-1422187050
Michael J. Silverstein, Dylan Bolden, Rune Jacobsen and Rohan Sajdeh, Rocket: Eight Lessons To Secure Infinite Growth (McGraw-Hill Education, New York, 2015) ISBN-10: 1259585425 and ISBN-13: 978-1259585425
Contributor
Articles in the following books:
Karl Schweizer and Jeremy Black (eds.), Politics and the Press in Hanoverian Britain (Edwin Mellen Press, New York, 1989) ISBN-10: 9990190801 and ISBN-13: 978-9990190809
Michael Harris and Tom O'Malley (eds.), Studies in Newspaper and Periodical History (Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1996) ISBN-10: 0313290512 and ISBN-13: 978-0313290510
Sian Griffiths (ed.), Beyond The Glass Ceiling: Forty Women Whose Ideas Shape The Modern World (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1996) ISBN-10: 0719049547 and ISBN-13: 978-0719049545
Harriet Swain (ed.), The Big Questions In History (Jonathan Cape, London, 2005) ISBN-10: 0224072803 and ISBN-13: 978-0224072809
Awards
- 2002 Best Insurance Submission at the World Leadership Forum's Business Journalist of the Year Awards[14]
- 2002 Most Outstanding Contribution at the British Venture Capital Association's Journalist of the Year Awards[15]
- 2004 Commentator of the Year at the British Venture Capital Association's Journalist of the Year Awards[16]
External Links
Little, Brown & Company Author Page
References
- ↑ "About". Simon Targett. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- ↑ Tryhorn, Chris (2005-06-30). "New editor for FT.com". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- ↑ "Financial Times to expand fund management coverage with new weekly supplement". www.pearson.com. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- ↑ "Targett lands FT features role – Press Gazette". www.pressgazette.co.uk. 2004-08-26. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- ↑ Tryhorn, Chris (2005-06-30). "New editor for FT.com". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- ↑ "About". Simon Targett. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- ↑ "About". Simon Targett. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- ↑ "Media Relations: Contact book update". Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- ↑ "Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India". https://www.bcg.com. Retrieved 2018-08-23. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ "About". Simon Targett. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- ↑ "Pitt, James [pseuds. Francis Osborne esq., Socrates, Publicola] (fl. 1714–1755), writer on politics | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001 (inactive 2020-01-22).
- ↑ Targett, Simon (June 1994). "Government and ideology during the age of whig supremacy: the political argument of Sir Robert Walpole's newspaper propagandists*". The Historical Journal. 37 (2): 289–317. doi:10.1017/S0018246X00016484. ISSN 1469-5103.
- ↑ "Book Deals: Week of April 13, 2015". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- ↑ "About". Simon Targett. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- ↑ "About". Simon Targett. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- ↑ "About". Simon Targett. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
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