Julia Hobsbawm Explained

Honorific Suffix:OBE
Birth Place:London, England
Parents:Eric Hobsbawm and Marlene Schwarz
Occupation:Writer and public speaker

Julia Hobsbawm OBE (born 15 August 1964) is a British writer and public speaker.

Early life

Born in 1964 in London, England,[1] Julia Hobsbawm is the daughter of historian Eric Hobsbawm and music teacher Marlene Schwarz, both European emigres,[2] and grew up in Hampstead,[3] attending Camden School for Girls.[4]

In the early 1980s, she studied French and Italian at the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster), leaving without qualifications after failing to transfer to Media Studies. She worked in publishing, and then as a researcher in television, including on Wogan,[5] [6] before moving to political fundraising for the Labour Party before the 1992 General Election.

Career

In 1993, Hobsbawm founded the public relations firm Hobsbawm Macaulay Communications with her friend Sarah Brown.[7] [8]

She has held Honorary Visiting Professorships at the University of the Arts, London, and more recently at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School), including a roles as Honorary Visiting Professor of Networking in 2012[9] and Honorary Visiting Professor in Workplace Social Health until 2020.[10] Since September 2022 she writes the "Working Assumptions" column for Bloomberg News' section on work, Work Shift, having formerly been an editor-at-large for wellbeing portal Thrive, and a columnist for Strategy+Business magazine.

She began hosting The Nowhere Office podcast with Stefan Stern in March 2021.[11]

Hobsbawm was appointed an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2015 for services to business.[12]

She is a patron of the Facial Surgery Research Foundation and the Zoe Sarojini Trust, a charity educating girls in South Africa, and was a founding trustee in the UK of OurBrainBank.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Remembering Dad. Julia. Hobsbawm. Financial Times. 19 April 2013.
  2. News: My family values. Sabine Durrant. The Guardian. Julia. Hobsbawm. 22 February 2009.
  3. Web site: The House I Grew Up In Julia Hobsbawm. BBC Radio 4. BBC. 2 August 2010. 16 July 2024.
  4. Web site: Interview: Julia Hobsbawm. The Jewish Chronicle. Lynne. Franks. 24 November 2016.
  5. Web site: My Life in Media: Julia Hobsbawm. The Independent. 3 April 2005 .
  6. Web site: Julia Hobsbawm: ‘I’m interested in social mobility, and I think there is a stuckness going on’. The Guardian. Zoe. Williams. 10 October 2014.
  7. Web site: Boggan . Steve . Face that fits for the man with a head for figures . The Independent . 15 November 2023 . en . 29 June 1997.
  8. News: London's networking queen: Julia Hobsbawm. The Standard. 10 April 2012.
  9. Web site: Guttenplan . D. D. . Networking in the Groves of Academe . The New York Times . 15 November 2023 . 1 July 2012.
  10. Web site: Cass appoints Julia Hobsbawm as its first Honorary Visiting Professor of Workplace Social Health. Bayes Business School. 19 March 2018. 31 December 2022.
  11. Web site: The Nowhere Office on Apple Podcasts . Apple Podcasts. 16 January 2024 .
  12. Web site: Birthday Honours 2015: the Prime Minister's list: CSV - GOV.UK . assets.publishing.service.gov.uk . en.

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