Julia Hobsbawm

Julia Hobsbawm OBE (born 15 August 1964) is a British writer and speaker on Social Health and modern connectedness and the author of Fully Connected: Social Health in an Age of Overload' (Bloomsbury paperback 2018). She is Honorary Visiting Professor at Cass Business School and at the University of Suffolk. An entrepreneur who founded the knowledge networking company Editorial Intelligence in 2005, she was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2015.

Early life

She was born on 15 August 1964, the daughter of the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm and music teacher Marlene Schwarz,[1] and attended Camden School for Girls.

After leaving the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster) without qualifications in the early 1980s, 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, subsequently Hobsbawm Macaulay Communications,[4] in collaboration with Sarah Brown (née Macaulay). She now runs Editorial Intelligence, which she launched in 2005.

Books

  • Fully Connected: Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Overload, Bloomsbury (2017)
  • The See-Saw: 100 Ideas for Work-Life Balance, Atlantic Books (2013)
  • Where the Truth Lies: Trust and Morality in the Business of PR, Journalism and Communications, Atlantic Books (2010)

References

  1. ↑ "Interview: Julia Hobsbawm". The Jewish Chronicle.
  2. ↑ "My Life in Media". Independent.
  3. ↑ "London's networking queen: Julia Hobsbawm". Evening Standard.
  4. ↑ "Julia Hobsbawm: How a life-threatening illness made me rethink my work-life balance". Telegraph.
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