Ellie Carrington is an account manager at Newsdirect Scotland with a wide-ranging brief that covers circular economy, innovation, food and drink and the digital economy. Ellie is also editor of Newsdirect Scotland’s daily briefing on environmental and energy issues.

After obtaining a degree in Geography from the University of Portsmouth, Ellie worked at a public policy events company for three years before moving to Edinburgh. She then worked as a freelance parliamentary analyst, covering Westminster and the devolved administrations before joining Newsdirect in 2021.

Ellie listens to any history podcast she can find to try and plug her lack of history knowledge that comes from choosing geography over history at GCSE all those years ago.