Invest in France

Delighted to say I will be working for the Invest in France inward investment agency as editor of their quarterly magazine. Watch this space for the next edition.....

Individual Responsibility and Drinking

I am delighted to be taking part in the second stage of the Demos research project Under the Influence, looking at individual responsibility and drinking. I'll be speaking to families up and down the country to assess how programmes aimed at improving parenting and tackling parental alcohol abuse impact positively on children’s wellbeing and behaviour.

It chimes with my first novel, Twisted Ladder, which examines addiction and the family gene and is being represented by US agents Dystel & Goderich.

Centre for London @ Digital Shoreditch

Fantastic presentation by Centre for London Deputy Director Ron Whitehead on our Tech City research project at the Digital Shoreditch festival. Such a pleasure to talk with such an engaged community.

Russia Post

Happy to see Russia Post's modernisation plans discussed in French business faily Les Echos....

Tech City Expert Seminar

Great morning with the great and the good of Tech City and Silicon Roundabout as we tested the initial findings from the Centre for London Tech City research project and the recently opened Google Campus....

Not quite sure, however, how I feel about the stamp George Osborne left behind.......

SMEs, Technology and Brussels

I was delighted to be invited to Brussels by the Lisbon Council to talk SMEs and technology and their expert roundtable. What was the main lesson I took away? Crowdsourcing.... Could this be the answer for digital economy entrepreneurs struggling to persuade a cautious and risk-averse financial community of the viability of their strange-fangled business plans? Certainly. Is the regulatory environment geared up for this? Absolutely not.....

Thanks to the fabulous Ann Mettler and Paul Hofheinz for bringing me to Brussels to talk about a few insights from the Centre for London Tech city research project.

The most important job I've done all year

The most important job I've done all year... was being maid of honour at my sister Sara's fabulous wedding to my new brother-in-law Luke, in Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens.

Congratulations to the happy couple!!!!