Laura Shields is the founder and Managing Director of Red Thread, a Brussels-based communications agency specialising in media, presentation and message training. A former journalist who graduated from Cambridge University in 2000, Laura started her career at CNN and CNBC in London, specialising in European business news and US politics. She moved to the BBC in 2004 where she initially worked as the Economics and Business Analyst and then as a producer for Radio 4’s World at One and PM programmes.