Richard Gillis

Richard Gillis is an award-winning journalist working for several of the world’s leading newspaper and publishing groups. Formerly editor of SportBusiness International magazine, he then became Cricket Correspondent of the Irish Times covering Ireland’s remarkable 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup campaign in the Caribbean, where his reporting on the untimely death of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer led the global news agenda. He now lives in London, where he is a columnist and feature interviewer for the Irish Times and writes about sport, business and the media for the Wall Street Journal, alongside media and communications consultancy work. His book The Captain Myth: The Ryder Cup and Sport’s Great Leadership Delusion was published by Bloomsbury in August 2016.