Lissa Cook

Lissa has a wide range of experience in PR and journalism.  Her career includes two years producing Radio 4's flagship live news programmes 'The World at One' and 'PM' and two years making documentaries and investigative reports for BBC networks including 5 live and The World Service.  

Prior to that she worked as Senior Press Officer for the Liberal Democrats dealing directly with national newspaper political editors and broadcasters through the 2001 general election.  Her first job was working as special adviser for former President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, at his Paris-based think-tank.   She speaks fluent French and conversational Dutch.  

She now runs her own business designing and hand-making childrenswear called Peak Princess – not as left-field a move as it first seems as her mother was a couture designer.  Since launching her debut collection she’s had regular & widespread coverage in in national magazines including Sunday and on BBC TV.   

Off the back of her homegrown success, she was asked to promote the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival - ticket sales increased by 77%.  She’s now working for the Cliffhanger Outdoors Festival as well as the Community Sports Trust's flagship project Derbyshire Village Games, promoting grassroots sports in the run-up to the Olympics and beyond.  She’s passionate about social media having launched BBC Radio 4’s PM blog with Eddie Mair which won the 2007 Sony Gold Interactive award.   She also writes freelance for a range of publications and can from time to time be heard reading the news on her local radio station High Peak Radio.

You can read her series profiling the work of the Derbyshire Village Games in Derbyshire Life Magazine.