I am the Education and Professional Development Director at D&AD. We work with the creative industries, primarily advertising, design and other creative communications disciplines. I’ve been at D&AD for over seven years and over that time have built up a large network of contacts amongst some of the top design and advertisisng folk out there.

I am a freelance consultant in social marketing. My main clients are currently WYSE International, an educational leadership charity associated with the United Nations, and Equator Media, a social marketing agency that works with organisations such as Channel 4 and Time Out. My background is in development, marketing and communications, in the particular context of social enterprise and youth development. I gained experience in Business Improvement with Oxfam International and worked on the PR for their ‘Oxfam Unwrapped’ scheme. I then worked for a youth development project in Calcutta, before completing a Masters degree in Development Management at the University of Westminster. For the past two years I have been working in the social enterprise sector as Director of Marketing and Communications for i-genius, an online community of social entrepreneurs with members in over 90 countries. I was involved from the start-up stage, and so climbed a steep learning curve which culminated in organising an international conference in Thailand for over one hundred social entrepreneurs. See www.equatormedia.co.uk and www.wyse-ngo.org