Green Traveller's Team
 
Our team consists of highly experienced in-house and freelance project managers,
videographers, video editors, photographers, travel writers, bloggers, and designers

Richard Hammond
Exec Producer & Videographer

Richard has produced over 100 videos in the UK, Europe and Worldwide. He is a qualified drone pilot (he holds the CAA's qualification for aerial work in the UK and the equivalent EASA qualification in Europe) and has worked for a variety of clients, including tour operators, national tourist boards, NGOs, European Union, World Travel and Tourism Council, and United Nations.

Tina Smith
Designer

Tina is an award-winning designer and art director with over 10 years experience in journalism. She has worked on a range of titles, from whizzy digital editions of Empire to hand-stitched headlines of Pretty Nostalgic, via a string of wide-ranging BBC publications and others, including Lost in London.

Ginny Light

Writer/Blogger
Ginny started her writing career at Business Traveller magazine, during which she was awarded Young Travel Writer of the Year by Travel Trade Gazette. She then took over editorship of the travel and tourism industry news website TravelMole.com and later joined The Times where she became Online Travel Editor and later Online Features Editor.

Emma Smith

Finance Manager

Emma is our finance manager, responsible for our invoicing and accounts for all our clients and freelance contributors. She also has a flair for design and has contributed to the look of our re-launched Green Travel Guides - for travellers looking for local character, food and drink, culture and heritage, low impact and sustainable adventures.

Christopher Willan

Creative Director of Photography

Chris has been a professional photographer for over 25 years working on TV and film, NGO, editorial and corporate assignments in over 50 countries. He has worked for a range of clients, including BBC Worldwide, British Airways, Condé Nast, Thomas Cook, TUI, The Travel Foundation, The Nature Conservancy and the Spanish Tourist Office.

Nigel Camp

Videographer
Nigel has produced over 100 videos for organisations such as Johnson & Johnson, the Holiday Inn and BritMums. Nigel was the lead videographer on our work for NCTA’s England’s Coast Project and for our work for the Travel Foundation on sustainable coastal tourism in Croatia and the Caribbean as well as for our films for the WTTC in Baja California.

Sarah Baxter

Writer
Writer, rambler, runner, Sarah is the former deputy editor of Wanderlust magazine, and has written extensively about adventure travel for a range of publications, including The Telegraph, The Independent and Runners World. Whether she's topping tors in Dartmoor or strolling the Cotswolds from her Bath front door, she loves travel.

Diensen Pamben
Photographer/Videographer

Diensen is a versatile photographer and videographer who is highly experiencing in capturing striking imagery (particularly portraits) and telling engaging stories with a set of skills developed over many years in broadcast TV and the UK Press as well as working with a range
of corporate clients.

Harriet O'Brien

Project Manager/Writer

Harriet is a travel writer and award-winning author. She was on staff at the travel desk of The Independent during the 1990s and subsequently worked as managing editor at Conde Nast Traveller. Harriet has developed
a preference to explore places
on foot – it’s the only way to get really under the skin of a
location, she says.

Paul Bloomfield

Writer
Paul has been writing about travel, food, drink, music for over 10 years. He's written for Lonely Planet, Wanderlust and numerous publications, tackling the Zambezi by raft, the Hudson by kayak, and the Swedish Arctic on a husky sled. Mostly, though, he prefers riding Shank's pony and hiking trails from Cornwall to New Zealand's Queen Charlotte Track.