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An urbanist and writer, I have fifteen years of political and economic journalism experience and now specialise in urban policy and communications. Formerly head of the economic service for The Associated Press in Paris and Bloomberg’s chief political reporter in France, I have covered a breadth of industry sectors and political issues working across the globe. Recently, I have focusing on London and West Africa in policy and communications roles for organisations including the Centre for London think tank, the Financial Times and the Town and Country Planning Association. I have an RTPI-accredited masters in spatial planning from the Bartlett (UCL), where I specialised in regeneration with a focus on London’s East End and the Olympic Park area. You can follow some of my thoughts and actions in the planning blog on the right hand side of this page. Underneath the photo, you can click for a link to my CV (with details of how to contact me if you would like to employ me for freelance writing, research, PR or advisory work), or click on journalism for links to sample articles and information about my 2007 book on French politics 'Schizophrenie Francaise.'

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

More Tech City press

Two weeks after the launch of our Tale of Tech City report, it is still being talked about! Which can only be a good thing.

Latest is a short piece I collaborated on for Estates Gazette - as Deputy London Mayor Kit Malthouse said at our launch, maybe not all tech entrepreneurs have heard about Tech City, but 100% of property industry professionals have!

The FT ran a piece the day after the report, and The Observer covered our scenarios for future growth.

The Guardian published a second piece, this time on their local government network by Dr Sean Carey, a social anthropologist leading a research project on Digital Shoreditch for the University of East London. Interestingly, his points about the white-male makeup of the cluster reflect those I made when speaking at the Place East London conference, when I fessed up to my social anthropology roots!

And the academics have been talking, both at LSE's Spatial Economics Research Centre, and at UCL's CASA.

The business community is talking about us too!

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