About

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Editor of Mobile Europe & European Communications – we’re all about network tech and operators’ tech strategies. Sign up for our daily newsletter. Download back issues of our quarterly magazine free of charge and check out our hugely successful virtual events with top ranking speakers – both upcoming and per session videos on-demand.

I research, write and edit content, on a freelance basis, for a number of organisations and companies. Most of my work doesn’t appear under my name but you will find lots of my work on inform@tmforum.org and at FutureNet World.

Short version of my long career before freelancing again

(Or click here for my CV – it’s is even shorter!)

Senior Director, Research & Media, TM Forum (a trade association for telcos and their suppliers), August 2010 to November 2017

I was responsible for all editorial aspects of TM Forum’s portfolio of research and publications, from in-depth research reports to weekly newsletters; from commissioning work (and occasionally writing a report), to signing it off. Oversaw, with outstanding input from my former colleague Sarah Wray, the Forum’s Inform content channel by more than 50% (unique visitors and page views) year-on-year since its launch in 2015.

Above & Beyond Award, July 2014, from the CEO
Chairman’s Award for Outstanding Performance, April 2013

Freelance editor, writer, researcher, journalist and media trainer, May 1995 to August 2010

Editing monthly or bi-monthly magazines, researching and writing articles and blogs, working with many, varied senior executives, interviewing them for articles or to undertake bespoke research, coaching in specialist areas, media training, drawing up synopses of content for special reports for the International Herald Tribune and The [London] Times, drafting speeches, ghosting articles, research papers and book chapters, sticking to typically tight deadlines, project management of large publications with many contributors, editing copy for all kinds of different types of content.

Editor, Communicate monthly magazine, owned by The Economist Group, October 1991 to May 1995

Headhunted (by the Media Network) to take up role as editor at The Economist Group, of a monthly, controlled-circulation magazine for the UK communications industry, responsible for small team and all aspects of content and production.

Actually heard the then deputy editor of The Economist, the late Nico Colchester, shout “Stop the press” and mean it.

Editor, Harpur Publishing, January – September 1991

Headhunted (by Goddard Kay Rogers) as launch editor on pan-European communications magazine which didn’t happen for whole lot of exciting reasons; was headhunted again to go and work at The Economist Group.

Managing Editor, Thomson International, March 1987 to December 1990

Recruited as assistant editor on UK B2B magazine Communications, then promoted to Editor, before becoming Managing Editor of both the UK version and its far bigger sibling, Communications International.

Deputy Editor, Techpress from June 1986 to February 1987

Poached to work on an ICT title; poacher left and I headed back to North London.

Assistant Editor at Morgan Grampian,  June 1984 to May 1986

Worked on What’s new in Computing, and learned an awful lot about editing badly-written material and a whole lot else beside, particularly about the business of publishing. My employer put me and the other rookies through the full set of courses offered by the Periodicals Training Council.

Life after university

1982 was a grim time to graduate, especially as a woman with an Arts degree, so I did lots of things for the two years after graduation, from working as a nanny in Geneva, to working in an office, a psychiatric hospital, a shop and a not-for-profit in London. I wrote freelance articles for the North London newspaper, The Journal, and sent a lot of job applications.

University of Bristol, Joint Honours Degree in History and English (BA)

University of Bristol, Joint Honours Degree in History & English – should have re-sat the year I was ill and ended up having surgery, but I was in too much of a hurry to get on.

Other stuff

I like: living in rural Norfolk and keeping horses, dogs and ducks; reading; writing; trying to beat my aunt at Scrabble; gardening; cooking; theatre; and music (especially classical no later than Beethoven unless its opera). I need more time.