Deborah Hargreaves

Profile: Full name: Deborah Hargreaves Area of interest: Business and finance Journals/Organisation: The Guardian Email: deborah.hargreaves@guardian.co.uk Personal website: Website: Guardian.co / Deborah Hargreaves Blog: Comment is free... Representation: Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/deborahharg

Biography: About: Education: Career: Reuters in New York; Financial Times: Financial Editor, Markets Editor and Personal Finance Editor (also worked in Brussels and Chicago as specialist correspondent roles, including agriculture, commodities and energy), Global News Editor; joined The Guardian in March 2006 where she was Business Editor until 2010; Chair of the High Pay Commission, see: http://highpaycommission.co.uk/about/meet-the-commissioners] Current position/role: also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Chair of the High Pay Commission Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

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The Guardian: Column name: column ended Remit/Info: Business and finance Section: Business or Money Role: Business editor Pen-name: Email: deborah.hargreaves@guardian.co.uk Website: Guardian.co / Deborah Hargreaves Commissioning editor: Day published: Regularity: Varies Column format: Average length: also contributes to the Viewpoint column

Articles: Lord Wolfson's gesture is welcome, but won't curb executive pay - The way to end excessive pay is to abolish share awards and the cosy club of directors who set each others' salaries - 17th April 2013 Don't cap bank bonuses, scrap them - The EU's plan to cap bonuses sounds like good news – but it may simply lead to banks jacking up salaries - 28th February 2013 The Bank of England governor's huge salary is bolstered by amazing perks - Average earnings stay strangled, but still a corporate elite is getting richer while society pays the price - 21st December 2012 It is obscene for bosses to continue to take big bonuses - What is wrong with business leaders working for a salary – like everyone else? - 21st September 2012 Why UK banks deserve to sweat under the scrutiny of US regulators - If US authorities are focused on British banks, the City of London only has itself to blame for the failures of light-touch regulation - 11th August 2012 Employees need a say on executive pay - Giving shareholders more powers is not enough – Cameron must not dodge worker representation on pay committees - 10th January 2012 Shareholders are mugs to keep paying executive bonuses - Company performance bears little or no relation to how much a director gets in salary or bonus - 5th September 2011 Britain's top pay bonanza knows no bounds - High pay matters economically as well as morally and socially. The unsustainable remuneration system must be reformed - 17th May 2011 John Vickers' bank reform proposals are not enough - Sir John has let the banks off lightly, and ducked radical reforms - 12th April 2011 Will Hutton performs unevenly on public sector pay - Hutton's review offers some steps to transparency, but its proposals could add an unwelcome degree of complexity - 16th March 2011 Don't let the banks hold us to ransom - If the £800m levy extension has really made bank bosses 'livid' then it just shows how timid they expect the government to be - 9th February 2011 Executive pay committees could do with an injection of realism - The directors who set remuneration levels are mostly blinkered insiders. Employee representation would be a positive step - 6th January 2011 Eric Cantona's bank protest would hurt us all - Cantona's call for a mass cash withdrawal is understandable but wrong. Unfortunately, we need banks as much as they need us - 24th November 2010 Two years on and all we get from the banks is two fingers - The appointment of the risktaker par excellence Bob Diamond at Barclays throws down the gauntlet over banking reform - 8th September 2010 Cuts: no recipe for regeneration - There is no evidence for Osborne's claim that refocusing public spending will boost economic success without hitting fairness - 17th August 2010 On boardroom pay, chief executives just don't get it - We're told we're in a new age of austerity, yet top pay and bonuses still rise astronomically – heedless of public disgust - 12th June 2010 While we brace for the pain of cuts, executive pay soars - The latest bonus bonanza lays bare the fiction of trickle-down. The price for global market failure is paid on the shop floor - 16th February 2010 There would be no bonuses at my bank - Goldman Sachs has shown how easy it is to make money in investment banking right now. Maybe I'll give it a try - 15th October 2009 Investment lessons from Madoff - There are a few obvious rules that investors in Madoff funds sadly ignored. We must take more responsibility for our finances - 30th June 2009 Fred Goodwin's empty gesture is too little, too late - Despite giving back some of his pension, Fred Goodwin isn't making a big sacrifice. He should repay it all and work for charity - 19th June 2009 Time to close the pay gap - There is a vast and growing gap between executive and staff pay – a private member's bill today shows the way forward - 25th April 2009 It's all about the union - The real reason the government wants to privatise Royal Mail is to force a confrontation with the postal workers' union - 27th February 2009 (see: Business: Privatising the post: panel discussion) A question of trust - Crisis watch: Public confidence in the banks is at an all-time low - no wonder sales of safes are growing - 23rd January 2009 Madoff, the Midas who made an ass of investors - Viewpoint: Investors ignored one of the classic rules of investment: "If it seems too good to be true, it usually is." - 16th December 2008 (Summary of Bernard Madoff news articles here) We should take the axe to these architects of downfall - Ego-driven bank bosses gambled their businesses and our money and lost. Now it's time they were properly held to account - 10th October 2008 This crisis requires a radical solution - an ethical bank - A reformed banking industry would treat customers fairly, pay bosses less and shun complicated financing - 25th September 2008 Future economy: 'Bankers have gone mad with our money' - (audio) the Lloyds TSB takeover of HBOS and how it has changed the rules - 20th September 2008 Without money, we'll run out of power - The energy industry needs large-scale investment to supply our electricity and gas – and a windfall tax would put this at risk - Guardian.co.uk - 29th August 2008 A windfall tax would only scare off investors we rely on - The proposed energy levy would be arbitrary and unfair, and would ruin Britain's chances in the race for resources - 27th August 2008 Are we trying to beat the economic blues with a spot of retail therapy? - Yes, the economy's looking grim. But it's not unusual for us to cheer ourselves up by doing a bit of shopping - Guardian.co.uk - 22nd August 2008 What price prudence? - The government should without doubt compensate savers whose investments were ruined by the fall of Equitable Life - Guardian.co.uk - 17th July 2008 Sexism is still rife in business - 13th June 2008 The credit crunch is about to get very personal - 9th April 2008 What happens when there are no first-time buyers? - 27th February 2008 The yield of indecision - Some are calling the Northern Rock bond plan nationalisation in all but name. It's worse than that - 22nd January 2008 Q&A: Global share rout - 22nd January 2008 Rock bottom - that's where trust in financial services is - 20th September 2007 This boom has 80s echoes. We know how that ended - 27th June 2007 The Apprentice is no substitute for real business coverage - 25th June 2007 Britain's top bosses are on another planet: planet greed - 11th June 2007 Going green starts to gain momentum - 1st June 2007 Pressing all the nuclear buttons - The government is finding its enthusiasm for nuclear power is not widely shared - 31st May 2007 Nice work if you can get it? - Martha Lane Fox is to be paid £55,000 a year for 15 days' work on the board of M&S. But what will she actually do for her money? - 24th May 2007 What is the World Bank for? - 21st May 2007

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