Hope Coumbe
Hope Coumbe (formerly William-Smith) is editor at Professional Adviser. She first joined Incisive Media as news editor of Professional Pensions in 2019 before becoming deputy editor in 2022. Hope is the 2023 WTW Retail/Wealth Investment Journalist of the Year and has been highly commended and shortlisted multiple times at the Headlineymoney Awards, the Aegon Asset Management Journalism Awards, the WTW Media Awards, the State Street Institutional Press Award and the Kames Capital Journalism Awards. She graduated from the University of New South Wales in 2015 with a Master of Law, Media and Journalism. Prior to that, she completed a BA in Politics and International Relations at the University of Sydney. Outside of work, she enjoys playing sports, learning languages, and travelling.