Frances Swanwick

Responsibilities:
Consumer insights, strategic planning

Experience:
From global brands like HSBC to utilities like Scottish Water. Worked client-side as Senior Marketing Manager at the Scottish Executive

Qualifications:
MSc Cognitive Science and Natural Language and BSc (Hons) Neuroscience

Background:
Born in Paraguay to a Paraguayan mum and English dad. He was her teacher, it was love at first sight and I was born a year later. Lived in Paraguay until I was 6 – Spanish is my first language. Since then I’ve lived in Llanfairpwllgwyngyll gogerychwyrn drobwllllantysiliogogogoch (not just a train station), and in Kuwait, Nottingham, Edinburgh and London.

Interests:
Pub quizzes! In summer I spent three weeks driving an autorickshaw round India. And I’ve just come back from a banger rally in Latvia. Planning the next adventure…

Super-power:
Locating the nearest cocktail bar anywhere in the world using only my sense of smell.

Music / Movies / TV / Books:
Listening to Lucky Jim – ‘You’re lovely to me’ on loop for days. It’s from the Kingsmill ad. And for a good boogy – Norman Jay’s Good Times album. Amelie. Anything by Almodovar. Dragons’ Den, Scrubs. And Secret Millionaire fills me with love for mankind. Reading ‘The Kite Runner’, weeping into my cornflakes every morning.

Quote:
Look after the luxuries and the necessities will look after themselves ~ Dorothy Parker.