Julia Hobsbawm
Julia Hobsbawm (born 1964) is the world's first Professor of Networking, having been made Honorary Visiting Professor by London's Cass Business School.
Early life
She was born in 1964, the daughter of the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm and music teacher Marlene Schwarz, a refugee from the Nazis[1] and attended Camden School for Girls.
After dropping out of the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster) in the early 1980's she worked as a researcher in television,[2] before moving into PR.
She is a patron of the Facial Surgery Research Foundation and the Zoe Sarojini Trust, a charity educating girls in South Africa.[3]
Companies
She founded Julia Hobsbawm Associates in 1992, which then became the "ethical PR" agency Hobsbawm Macaulay Communications[4] in collaboration with Sarah Brown (nee Macaulay). She now runs Editorial Intelligence, which she launched in 2005.
Books
- The See-Saw: 100 Ideas for Work-Life Balance, Atlantic Books (28 Feb. 2013)
- Where the Truth Lies: Trust and Morality in the Business of PR, Journalism and Communications, Atlantic Books (1 Oct. 2010)
External links
- www.juliahobsbawm.com
- Editorial Intelligence
- Julia Hobsbawm on Twitter
- Julia Hobsbawm on LinkedIn
References
- ↑ "Interview: Julia Hobsbawm". The Jewish Chronicle.
- ↑ "My Life in Media". Independent.
- ↑ "London's networking queen: Julia Hobsbawm". Evening Standard.
- ↑ "Julia Hobsbawm: How a life-threatening illness made me rethink my work-life balance". Telegraph.