About Me

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.'

Friday, October 26, 2012

FSB and Tech City

I was delighted to speak last night at an event organised by the Federation of Small Businesses, one of the sponsors of our report on Tech City. The audience - full of suits and ties - was very different than the regular cool urbanite crowd of Tech City, which made for a very interesting debate. People had come because they wanted to know more about what is happening in this much-hyped part of London, and to understand what the digital economy or being part of this community could mean for them. They kept the panel - which included Pru Ashby, the Tech City expert at London & Partners, Ian Dowson, Author of “London as a Start up City,” and Andrew Humphries of the Tech City Investment Organisation - on our toes.

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