Yash Gupta, a 16-year-old school student from Wakefield, has been named ifs Young Business Writer of the Year.
The free-to-enter business writer competition is organised by financial education charity ifs School of Finance each year as part of their financial capability programme. The nationwide competition is open to all 14-19 year olds and this year attracted a record number of entries.
The question to be answered by all entrants was: "Who is responsible for the Consumer Debt Mountain?"
Yash Gupta composed an interesting and informative article arguing that lenders, individuals and Government must all take some degree of responsibility for the £1.3 trillion debt mountain.
The competition was judged by Robert Cole, Deputy Business Editor at The Times, who hailed the article for its "…soundly reasoned argument and accessible use of language."
In addition to the title "ifs Young Business Writer of the Year 2007," Yash was awarded a cheque for £250 by ifs School of Finance Chief Executive Gavin Shreeve (pictured below). Yash also enjoyed a trip to The Times newspaper where he met Personal Finance Editor Antonia Senior (pictured below) who edited the article for publication.
Yash presented with top prize by Gavin Shreeve, Chief Executive of the ifs
School of Finance
Yash discusses his article with Antonia Senior, Personal Finance Editor at
The Times
Yash said: "I was delighted to find out I had been short-listed but to actually win the competition is amazing!"
Please click here to read the winning article.
To register your interest in taking part in next year's ifs Young Business Writer of the Year competition, please e-mail ybwy@ifslearning.ac.uk. The article title will be set on December 1 2007 with all entries needing to be submitted by February 29 2008.
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