Rachel Bridge

Rachel Bridge (born 1968) is a British journalist, author and public speaker [http://www.rachelbridge.com] . She is the Enterprise editor for British newspaper, The Sunday Times, and writes about small and medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurs.Bridge attended Wimbledon High School, London [http://www.gdst.net/wimbledon] and graduated from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge in 1989 with an MA (Hons) economics degree. She lives in London.

Career

Her first job was as a companies reporter on Investors Chronicle magazine and she went on to become a business reporter for the Evening Standard and then The Times. In 1995 she moved to Sydney to become Australian correspondent for The Times for three years and followed that with two years as a French correspondent for The Times based in Bordeaux. On her return to the UK in 2002 Bridge became the small business writer for the Mail on Sunday before joining The Sunday Times in 2003.

Writing

Bridge has published three books so far, based on her popular columns in the Sunday Times newspaper, with the latest book "You Can Do It Too", [http://www.koganpage.com/products/BusinessandManagement/B/Entrepreneurship/B009/1002440/9780749451530] , published in September 2008.
"How I Made It" [http://www.koganpage.com/products/BusinessandManagement/B/Entrepreneurship/B009/1001029/9780749443115] and "My Big Idea" [http://www.koganpage.com/products/BusinessandManagement/B/Entrepreneurship/B009/1001738/9780749446260] , published by Kogan Page [http://www.koganpage.com] , both made the list of best-selling business books on Amazon. "How I Made It" included interviews with Duncan Bannatyne from the BBC television series Dragons' Den, diet expert Rosemary Conley, Prue Leith and Julie Craymer, producer of Abba musical Mamma Mia on stage and screen.
"How I Made It" was described by Sir Richard Branson as 'Essential reading for every budding entrepreneur'.
Bridge also helped businessman and Dragons' Den judge Peter Jones write his book "Tycoon" and is thanked by Jones in the book's credits.

Public Speaking

Bridge has five years' experience public-speaking on issues such as enterprises and entrepreneurs [http://www.rachelbridge.com/speaking.htm] .

References

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External links

* [http://www.rachelbridge.com] Rachel Bridge Official Website
* [http://www.sunday-times.co.uk] The Sunday Times