Helen Kelly
Europe Editor-in-Chief
Helen maintains operational control over all Lloyd's List editorial products, ensuring they are delivered to the highest standards. This includes the rolling online news agenda, daily email news bulletin, daily news PDF, weekly news roundup, companies’ tracker, monthly print magazines and annual projects such as the Lloyd's List Top 100.
Helen plays a key role in developing new products and content across Lloyd's List. She works to improve integration of product offerings across the Informa Business Intelligence vertical including Informa Law and Insurance Day.
Helen manages a team of international journalists and editors in more than six countries and co-ordinates content from around the globe.
She has been interviewed for live television and radio as a Lloyd’s List shipping analyst.
Prior to joining Informa Helen worked as a broadcast and print journalist and editor at a number of well-known UK news organisations including The Guardian, The Telegraph and Trinity Mirror. She has worked as a UK stringer for US radio station Free Speech Radio News. She has also spent time with Guinness World Records, and lifestyle and fitness magazine Zest.
Helen is a native of Australia and hails from the ‘outback’ town of Darwin. She is a member of the National Union of Journalists and the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society. She knocks a ball about at Conway Tennis Club and is a keen, if somewhat lapsed, cyclist and runner.
Latest From Helen Kelly
The Interview: Dick Welsh, Isle of Man Ship Registry
Dick Welsh, the outgoing head of the Isle of Man Ship Registry, talks flag state responsibility in life and death situations – and being former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s pen pal
Tilbury2 passes final hurdle
Consent comes through just weeks before construction is due to start on the multi-million pound port project
Cargill targets male-only panels
Ocean Transportation business will consider including diversity criteria for event sponsorship
Ferry ports offered cheap loans for no-deal Brexit upgrades
As the UK government struggles to defend the collapse of its £13.8m post-Brexit contingency contract with Seaborne Freight, it has emerged that attempts to shore up ferry port infrastructure with cheap loans have so far resulted in no ports taking up the offer
Isle of Man Ship Registry's Mitchell gets top job
Dick Welsh is to retire after 13 years at the helm of fast-growing ship registry
Shipping body calls on UK government to end ‘Brexit in-fighting’
There is a ‘fleeting window of opportunity’ to act in unison and reverse the worrying developments on both the UK flag and the tonnage tax scheme