KRISTIN DANNEVIG

International Strategic Communications Consultant

By Alex Rigotti

What do you think could be done to improve diversity in the industry?

People with any kind of power should be checking their privilege at least once a day.

Looking back - what did you think of your fnal project?

I’m quite proud of it, strangely. My thesis was about the politics of ‘Thatcher’s children’ - the generation born just as she came to power and transformed Britain. I cycled all over London and interviewed young people from Wimbledon to Wood Green. They expressed such a mix of frustration and disconnection, energy and entitlement. I wish I’d had the guts to pitch it to a paper at the time.

Have you ever experienced sexism in your career?

Regularly. All women do.

What is your publication’s favourite post-print pub?

When I worked at Amnesty International we always went to the Easton pub and got hammered on terrible, overpriced Australian wine. Like everyone else in London I suppose. The size of those wine glasses is dangerous…

What are your hobbies?

After recently moving back to my home town of Oslo, I have taken up ice swimming and sauna, which was terrifying at frst but then strangely addictive, sociable - and it doesn’t cost the earth.