My background
My clients include academics, consultants, university departments, and organisations concerned with policy, science and conservation in Europe, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Qatar, South Korea, Taiwan, the UAE, the UK and the U.S.
I’ve had the rare opportunity to edit a book chapter by Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Four of my clients are Editors or Associate Editors of academic journals, and I have worked on editor introductions to journals (including Long Range Planning and Mortality).
I’ve also done work for various sub-organisations of and individuals connected to the United Nations, including the International Social Science Council (ISSC), as well as the World Economic Forum (WEF).
My work comes mostly via word-of-mouth, and I work mostly on retainer yet also on an ad hoc or a project basis.
An experienced language practitioner, I hold a Bachelor and an Honours in Philosophy, both from Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
I’m fluent in English and Afrikaans, and have some proficiency in Portuguese, French and Dutch.
I started my professional life as a proofreader and technical writer. What followed was editing, translation, copywriting, PR, feature articles, search engine optimisation, one-page proposals and screenwriting.
I have worked as a freelance and full-time writer, for agencies as well as clients.
My interests include:
American football
Anthropocene
anti-corruption
architecture
art
blockchain
the bottom of the pyramid
building community
cinema
cognition
commemoration
the commons
congruence
current affairs
decision-making algorithms
digitalisation
diversity
the Doomsday Clock
ecological overshoot
ecosystems
energy
engaged scholarship
fake news
family businesses
flow
football
framing
gender
humanism
humour
idea analysis and evaluation
Industry 4.0
initial coin offerings (ICOs)
innovation
intangibles
integration
intuition
legacy
makers
maturity
mortality
music
narrative
open source
privacy
procedural justice
public ledger
R&D
regeneration
renewables
resilience
resilience/antifragility
reversing cost externalisation
small/tiny homes
smart government
SMEs
social businesses
stand-up comedy
stigma
systems
theatre
trust
turbulence
water
(super-)wicked problems