Thames & Hudson
Laura Coban is an experienced professional with a strong background in financial administration and executive support. Since September 2012, Laura has served as PA to the Chief Financial Officer and Accounts Assistant at Thames & Hudson, providing critical assistance to senior finance executives while managing sensitive information within a global publishing environment. Prior to this role, Laura worked at Wilberforce Chambers from November 2010 to September 2012 as a Financial Administrator and PA to the Deputy CEO, where responsibilities included financial administration and VAT return submissions for multiple barristers. Laura's career began at Easier2move from June 2006 to November 2010, where rapid advancement to Team Leader and Compliance Officer reflected strong administrative and customer service skills in a conveyancing context. Laura's educational background includes attendance at Westcliff High School for Girls.
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson was founded in 1949 by Walter and Eva Neurath. Their passion and mission was to create a ‘museum without walls’ and to make accessible to a large reading public the world of art and the research of top scholars. To reflect its international outlook the name for the company linked the rivers flowing through London and New York, represented in its logo by two dolphins symbolizing friendship and intelligence, one facing east, one west, suggesting a connection between the Old World and the New. Today, still an independent, family-owned company, Thames & Hudson is one of the world’s leading publishers of illustrated books with over 2,000 titles in print. We publish high-quality books across all areas of visual creativity: the arts (fine, applied, decorative, performing), architecture, design, photography, fashion, film and music, and also archaeology, history and popular culture. Our children’s books list is also expanding. Headquartered in London, we have a sister company in New York and subsidiaries in Melbourne, Singapore and Hong Kong. In Paris, a further subsidiary company, Interart, distributes English-language books in France.