Meet Hamza Jahanzeb
From creating wondrous multi-channel campaigns for books (academic and trade), partnering with Choose Love or Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, to working as a judge of a book prize (CWA ALCS Non-Fiction Dagger Awards), Hamza’s impressive client-focused approach has provided him with an accolade as The Bookseller’s Rising Star accolade in 2020.
Having worked in-house in several roles within the publishing house, Hamza is now working in a freelance capacity to offer his fourteen-years of experience. This is a unqiue cross-departmental overview, and holistic approach to running effective marketing campaigns and editorial (sensitivity reading) services. He offesr astute observation of the cultural landscape both at home and overseas to clients seeking a solution to an editorial impasse. Moreover, Hamza sits on the Board of Trustees for the Postal Museum and Blaze Arts.
Most recently, in September 2025, Hamza assumed the role of Associate at Collective Wisdom – a new PR and Marketing agency for culture and the creative industries. Further, he writes reviews of West End and Broadway theatre on his Substack and has written for The Stage, garnering quite the following of engaged audiences; earlier in the year, Hamza was also accredited to cover the Edinburgh International and Fringe Festivals.
A stalwart for creating access and formulating bridges across political and social divides, he prides himself on channelling equity (such as the #BookJobTransparency campaign), whilst having a robust understanding of how Executive Boards need his external expertise to better internal practices (via his much sought-after CPD Diversity, Equity and Inclusion trainings); and businesses are often in need of new ways to re-tell their stories to a new generation and hence why Hamza’s services are a great way to share a wealth of experience providing Senior Leadership Teas a means to utilise his network for the betterment of companies internally.
2025 was also a momentous year for Hamza, as he became a published author with the release of his biography of US singer-songwriter Chappell Roan titled The Rise and Rise of Chappell Roan – find out more about the book, and where you can buy it here.
