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BUSINESS CHIEF MAGAZINE TEAM
EDITOR ISAIAH MCCALL
DEPUTY EDITOR ALEC MCDONNELL
LEAD DESIGNER ANDY WOOLLACOTT
GLOBAL MEDIA DIRECTOR JODIE PARKES-ROWE MARK CAWSTON
PRODUCTION MANAGERS YEVHENIIA SUBBOTINA FREYA REID
MARKETING LEADS LOTTIE TAYLOR ELLA TERRINGTON
MANAGING EDITORS LUCY BUCHHOLZ TOM CHAPMAN
PRODUCTION DIRECTOR DANIELA KIANICKOVÁ
MANAGING DIRECTOR LONDON & EVENTS JAMES CALLEN
CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER JAMES WHITE
CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER LEWIS VAUGHAN
CEO GLEN WHITE
Nobody comes back from holiday to the world they left behind. You set off in July for two weeks to ignore the headlines and return to a new Fed Chair making his debut at Jackson Hole, America in a trade war with, of all people, Canada, plus word from OpenAI that the device meant to replace the iPhone is finally here.
That is September for you. January is the amateur new year, all resolutions, gym memberships, brave talk. September is the
professional one. The suits come out of the wardrobe, the planner opens to Q4, then every idea that spent August on a sun lounger
suddenly needs a budget line by Friday.
This issue is built for that mood. Our cover star, UST COO Praveen Prabhakaran, wants to rescue the fortunes companies are pouring into AI, starting with the four things he says no business should ever outsource. Jony Ive, who drew the iPhone, is being paid billions by OpenAI to design its replacement. Elsewhere, the ESG label is dying while green investment hits a record US $ 2.2tn, the surest sign yet that the money never needed the acronym. So pour the first proper coffee of autumn. The year is about to get interesting.
Happy reading.
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