Heather is a financial journalist, editor, and broadcaster. She is a Senior Contributor for Forbes.com and specialises in Scandinavia and green technology.
Earlier this year, she edited Walter Scott’s 2024 Research Journal. She was formerly editor-in-chief at Next Economy Trust, founded by Saul Klein. She moderates conferences and discussions with clients including The Telegraph, the Swedish tech accelerators Sting and Go West, the Swedish Chamber of Commerce UK, and Digital Hub Denmark, the Danish government’s tech investment fund.
Having worked in the City of London for five years, first as a graduate trainee stockbroker with Rowe & Pitman and then as a fund manager with Allied Hambro, Heather became a journalist with Financial Weekly before moving to the Financial Times, where she was Junior Markets Correspondent. She also broadcast on BBC Radio Four’s Moneybox and Financial World Tonight.
She has contributed to newspapers and magazines such as Weekend FT, The Telegraph, Sunday Times Travel, Travel Weekly, The Guardian, Management Today, Modern Investor, The New Statesman, Reader’s Digest, Healthy, Travel Weekly, and Money Management, as well as airline magazines Voyager and Scanorama. An inquisitive researcher for Baillie Gifford & Co, she has also worked with strategic advisers Haggie Partners and the McDonough Partnership.
In 2014, she was a Visiting Scholar at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, researching Sweden’s role in the Second World War. She has also written the Rough Guide Chronicle of Irish History.
From 2004 – 2016, Heather edited Trust, an award-winning quarterly investment magazine published by Baillie Gifford & Co, to which she still contributes. She has also edited digital and printed magazines for Janus Henderson, The Co-operative Travel Group, Jupiter Asset Management, Gartmore, Hamptons, IBM, WH Smith, Orange, Lloyds and Barclays, Haggie Financial, Constantine Fine Art, and the insurance company Canopius.
