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Biography
Prior to Iceland, Hil worked as Marketing and Communications Director for the renowned Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and the Alder Hey Children’s Charity, recognised by a CIPR Excellence Award for leading the UK’s outstanding In-house communications team.
More recently she co-ran the LIFE consultancy, part of the global M&C Saatchi Group, where she continues to advise on transformative sustainability strategies for global clients, focusing on the unique potential of businesses to drive positive change.
She has more than 25 years’ experience supporting organisations to integrate purpose into strategy and to campaign for change, with a focus on climate and social issues, and social innovation. Her remit as a consultant has taken her all over the world, working on supply chain and social justice projects and won multiple industry awards – Iceland’s campaigns have been recognised by more than 50 industry awards including eight Cannes Lions and a Global Good Award.
She has developed and managed numerous charity partnerships, including projects with Action for Children; the Food Foundation; the Eden Project; Greenpeace; Surfers Against Sewage; and The Wildlife Trusts. Her Backyard Nature Campaign, developed for Iceland, generated 750,000 hours of nature engagement for children. The unique ethical credit scheme she created and scaled, Iceland Food Club, has provided £10million in interest-free microloans for thousands of hard pressed UK families – and is predicted to grow to £25million by the end of 2026. In July 2025 it received the 2025 Grocer Gold Award for Social Impact Initiative of the Year.
Hil has twice been named Outstanding UK Consultant by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and was one of the country’s founding Chartered PR Practitioners. She has a Masters in PR and Communications for Social Change, with a research specialism in environmental brand activism, and is a corporate speaker, lecturer and contributor to academic publications on social change communications.
She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and sits on its Global ESG Panel; and a Trustee of the Alder Hey Children’s Charity, the Rothesay Foundation and Feeding Britain as well as an Advisory Board Member at the recruitment firm Sherrington Associates.
Outside of work she recently fulfilled a longstanding ambition to travel to the Forbidden Kingdom of Upper Mustang in the Himalayas, and spent last January sailing off Northern Norway, observing the annual whale migration to the Arctic Circle.