Sathnam Sanghera was born to Punjabi parents in the West Midlands in 1976, attended Wolverhampton Grammar School and graduated from Christ’s College, Cambridge with a first class degree in English Language and Literature in 1998.

Before becoming a journalist Sathnam (among other things) worked at a burger chain, a hospital laundry, a market research firm, a sewing factory and a literacy project in New York. Between 1998 and 2006 he was at the The Financial Times, where he worked (variously) as a news reporter in the UK and the US, specialised in writing about the media industries, worked across the paper as Chief Feature Writer, and wrote a weekly column.

He has won numerous awards, including Article of the Year in the 2005 Management Today Writing Awards, Newspaper Feature of the Year in the 2005 Workworld Media Awards, HR Journalist of the Year in the Watson Wyatt Awards for Excellence and the accolade of Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2002.

Sathnam joined The Times in 2007. His weekly column appears in the Times 2 section on Tuesdays and his Business Life column, which is reprinted in India’s Business Standard newspaper, appears on alternate Saturdays. He also reviews cars for Management Today magazine and his first book, If You Don’t Know Me By Now, was published by Penguin in 2008. He lives in London.