Richard Gardham is the managing editor of Investment Monitor, overseeing editorial output for the site. He joined from the Financial Times where he was production manager across a number of titles, including The Banker and fDi Magazine. Richard has worked in magazine production for 25 years, with a career spanning numerous national newspapers and business-to-business publications.
Ireland has succumbed and announced it will meet the global minimum corporation tax level of 15%. The country has been one of Europe's FDI stars in recent years. Is this position now under threat?
Whatever climate action is agreed at COP26, it will be too little, too late. Investment Monitor looks at how the event could influence FDI markets in coming years.
Nine of the ten busiest ports in the world are based in Asia, with China dominating the list and Shanghai taking over from Singapore in the number one spot.
Globalisation may have played a pivotal role in bringing the world several effective Covid-19 vaccines, but a lopsided distribution will only prove its critics right.
Liverpool may have lost Unesco World Heritage status, but that says more about the UN body than it does about a city that is, rightly, putting its residents first, says Investment Monitor managing editor Richard Gardham.
Investment Monitor's Future of British Cities series has taken in more than 20 locations, each with its own industrial story and offering to investors. Richard Gardham rounds up our coverage.
Leeds and Bradford sit a few kilometres apart, but the former has enjoyed many successes in recent years while the latter looks on. Could a growing collaborative spirit lift both cities to a global level?
All you need to know about England's new free ports: East Midlands Airport; Felixstowe and Harwich; Humber; Liverpool City Region; Plymouth and South Devon: Solent; Thames; and Teesside.
If, as is expected, the SNP wins a majority in the Scottish election on 6 May, the independence debate will go into overdrive, but, as Investment Monitor has explored, the topic isn't a simple one.
22 April marks Earth Day around the world, and the event has grown into something that no company can afford to ignore if it is to remain true to its ESG targets.
Coventry's UK City of Culture celebrations have so far been muted, but there is a confidence in the city that its innovative spirit and automotive expertise will see it emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic on an upward trajectory.
The recent blockage of the Suez Canal had repercussions that were felt on a global scale. Just how vital is the waterway, and its Panama counterpart, to global trade?
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