Julia Hobsbawm

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

She is the daughter of historian Eric Hobsbawm and music teacher Marlene Schwarz, and attended Camden School for Girls.

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, before moving to political fundraising for the Labour Party before the 1992 General Election.

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

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 and Honorary Visiting Professor in Workplace Social Health until 2020.

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.

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

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.