Peter Marsh is a writer and lecturer on 21st century manufacturing. In recent years Peter has given talks on new opportunities in manufacturing in 16 countries including China, South Korea, Italy, the US, Germany, Qatar, Lithuania, South Africa, Turkey and Brazil. His best known book is “The New Industrial Revolution: Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production”, published by Yale University Press. In the past 30 years he has visited about 3,000 factories in 30 countries.
Peter is the founder of Made Here Now, a website on UK manufacturing aimed at increasing the number of young people considering technology and production as a career. Made Here Now has received praise for its innovative approach. It has been supported financially by about 70 organisations including manufacturers, financial groups and universities. The initiative highlights success stories in UK industry and links these to education and jobs.
From 1983 to 2013 he worked as a journalist at the Financial Times, most recently as manufacturing editor. Here he had responsibility for covering manufacturing around the world.
At the FT he also wrote about technology, the chemicals industry and economics. He had a spell in the FT’s investigative unit where he looked into such areas as mis-selling in the insurance industry and funding of political parties.
Peter has a degree in chemistry from the University of Nottingham and went to school in Hove, Sussex, where he grew up. His other books have covered microchips (“The Silicon Chip Book“, Abacus), robotics (“The Robot Age”, Abacus) and the space industry (“The Space Business”, Penguin).
He started his journalistic career at the Evening Post in Luton, before working at Building Design, a weekly newspaper for architects. Peter spent six years at New Scientist, the science and technology weekly, where he was industry editor. Among his pastimes are swimming and playing tennis. He is secretary of the Battersea and District Walking Society, based in London where he lives.
