Emma Elobeid is a Senior Editor at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, researching and writing about how the circular economy can help tackle global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution.
Her professional background spans publishing and journalism, on both the content and comms side. She’s managed marketing strategies for academic journals and B2B membership societies, created thought leadership campaigns for app developers and heritage organisations, produced vast amounts of fast-paced copy for online news outlets and led a talented freelance team as Editor of the Isle of Wight's leading print lifestyle magazine. Career highlight to date: talking to Chris Packham about punk music, Shinrin-Yoku, and zombies while he walked his dogs in the woods.
She has a First-Class BA Honours Degree in Publishing Media, a Master’s Degree (Distinction) in Journalism, and is an Intermediate member of the Chartered Institute for Editing and Proofreading.
Locally, on the Isle of Wight, she is still occasionally tagged on social media if a dead dolphin washes up ashore, thanks to her almost-award-winning story 'A Porpoise Named Peppa’ which saw her shortlisted as one of three finalists in the Association of British Science Writers Awards 2023.
She also writes poetry. What started as a fun way of getting through lockdown V1 has blossomed into an emerging creative secondlife. Her work has been published in Dublin-based poetry collective Not4U, literary magazine The Madrigal, and Beyond Words Magazine. Find her on Instagram @emma_elobeid.poet. She is a member of the Isle of Wight Creative Network and has recently joined the Ventnor Exchange Spoken Word Collective (VEX). Watch this space!
