Louise Hallman is a writer, editor and communications consultant with almost 20 years' experience in the nonprofit sector. Her clients include Salzburg Global Seminar. Before resuming her studies in 2022, she worked at Salzburg Global for ten years, leading the communications team and producing several of the organization's flagship publications, multimedia projects and webinars. Her previous experience includes working in media development and press freedom advocacy with the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the International Press Institute, and as a copyeditor for the Yemen Times. Louise holds degrees in international relations and Middle East studies from the University of St Andrews and multimedia journalism from Glasgow Caledonian University in the UK, and has just completed her master's in Gender Studies - Intersectionality and Change at Linköping University in Sweden. She is now planning to continue onto a PhD.