Management Profile

Lesley Bankes-Hughes
Company Secretary – Associate Editor

Lesley Bankes-Hughes began her career in publishing in 1982 with the Hutchinson Publishing Group. She left in 1983 to join Jane’s Information Group and over the next six years she held a variety of editorial and journalistic posts within the company, including Business Editor of the then newly-launched Jane’s Defence Weekly and as Chief Business Analyst for Jane’s Defence Data. She also contributed a number of articles on defence issues to highly-respected industry journals and newspapers.

Lesley joined the International Stock Exchange in London to work on editorial projects, and, in 1989, joined Euromoney Publications to set up a screen-based service covering Mergers and Acquisitions in association with Reuters.

In 1990, Lesley established M&A Europa, a specialist weekly newsletter covering the corporate acquisition sector in Europe. During this time, she was also a contributing editor to East European Privatisation News.

Following a seven-year stint at Christ Church, University of Oxford, with responsibility for developing educational outreach projects, she joined Petrospot in 2007 as Associate Editor.

Lesley was born in York in 1958 and lives in Oxfordshire. She has a degree in English from the University of London and undertook post graduate work at the University of Liverpool.