Global banking group Standard Chartered is to back the FT Business Book of the Year Award and the Bracken Prize for Young Authors for the next three years, in a new partnership.
The tie-up starts this year with Standard Chartered’s support for the 22nd edition of the prestigious £30,000 business book award, which was won last month by Stephen Witt for The Thinking Machine, his timely account of the rise of Nvidia and its chief executive, Jensen Huang.
Roula Khalaf, FT editor and chair of the award judging panel, said: “I’m delighted to welcome Standard Chartered as partner . . . and to announce the return of the Bracken Prize for Young Authors. Together, these prizes celebrate compelling ideas and those who offer timely perspectives on business today.”
Standard Chartered’s group chief financial officer, Diego De Giorgi, said the bank was “proud to support platforms that encourage deeper understanding of the trends that challenge assumptions, spark debate and define the future”.
The Bracken prize will go to the best business book proposal by a writer aged under 35. As the Bracken Bower Prize, it ran for nine years, starting in 2014. Many winners and finalists have gone on to transform their proposals into successful books.
