Professional experience
Versatile writing skills gained through a wide range of editorial experiences
– Good production skills, and knowledge of print, video and online media.
2002 to present day, Brussels-based freelancer
Financial/business: writing for Compliance Monthly, FSI Magazine (Deloitte), FT Europe, European Banking Federation, Accountancy Europe, Unico Banking Group and ING.
*Write ‘financial industry’ and ‘economy and business’ sections of daily Luxembourg news service, VitalBriefing.
Europe Connect, editor of the monthly newsletter of the Million Dollar Round Table, a membership organisation for life insurance and financial service agents, 2007-2011.
Environment/energy: writing news articles for EV Update (electric vehicle website), Chemical Watch and ICIS (chemical and energy news); script writer of videos for TRIP (DG MOVE).
*Editor at AEIDL, news/features on the EU's LIFE Programme (nature/environment/climate change), since 2006.
Development: contributing features to Rural Connections (ENRD) and Rural Review publications; ERDF-funded project summary writing.
Medical: writing for Hospital, the journal of the European Association of Hospital Managers, for European Heart Network and HIMSS; edited book on sleep for BASS.
Lifestyle: writing for Wall Street Journal Europe, The Guardian, TimeOut Guide to Brussels, b’there (Brussels airline mag), Expatica, The Bulletin among others.
*Editor of (A)WAY, bimonthly expat magazine, 2009-2014.
European Voice, freelance sub-editor and former web editor of EU newspaper 2002-09.
Amcham Business Journal, editor of quarterly magazine of American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium, 2003-2005.
2000 - 2001
X-SP News, online newsletter about the internet, assistant editor, (contributing editor to ESN magazine) – for US publishing company with offices in Belgium. (News reporting, feature writing, market research, advertorials and promotional work.)
1998 - 1999
Laboratory Update, Nexus Media, Swanley, assistant editor.
(Feature writing, editing news pages, commissioning articles, overseeing the production of the journal, formatting pictures and sending pages to press.)
“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”