Joanna Savill Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Placemaking NSW creates, manages, and cares for many of Sydney’s unique iconic harbourside locations, including The Rocks, Barangaroo, Darling Harbour, Luna Park and the White Bay Power Station. It brings Sydney’s foreshore to life - from community activities through to some of the city’s biggest and most popular events such as New Year’s Eve and Vivid. My Creative Director focus was to develop and enhance the visitor experience, night-time and visitor economy in iconic Sydney precincts like The Rocks / Tallawoladah, including an activation strategy for the food and drinks space.Part-time with Greater Sydney Parklands, I also set up the development plan for an agritourism precinct in Greater Sydney Parklands and led the arts and cultural delivery for Gabrugal Yana, a First Nations cultural walk on Dharug Country (Liverpool LGA).

Parramatta Cbd

Greater Sydney Parklands brings together significant public open spaces - urban and heritage parks - including Centennial Parklands, Parramatta Park, Callan Park, Fernhill Estate and Western Sydney Parklands.Leading a skilled marketing, comms, events and partnerships team, my role was to advocate for public parklands, engaging and growing audiences through marketing, media, public programs and events. I also managed strategic government, community and corporate partners and developed new business opportunities for the Parklands, including the Crescent Summer Series in Parramatta Park, the "tracks and trails" promotion for Western Sydney Parklands and worked with the incredible Centennial Parklands education team on the Nature Play program and the re-launched Guriwal native food plants trail.

Australia

MEDIA and CONTENTMulti-platform editorial director, strategist, content creator, journalistEVENTS DIRECTORCreator, curator, director and manager - from Fairfax Media's Good Food Month to customised events (business, cultural institutions, social enterprises, community and industry forums and debates)BRAND STRATEGYExpert in audience engagement, brand strategy and business developmentFOOD, TRAVEL, TOURISM, IDEAS, SOCIAL ISSUESMy patch, professionally, personally and academicallySPEAKER and PRESENTERAn engaging and experienced host, speaker and moderator: TV & video, radio, conferences, panels, launches, charity and community forums

Regular reviewing, columnist and contributor work with (among others):- Good Food (Nine Entertainment)- Delicious- Qantas Magazine/ Qantas Travel Insider- Robb Report- Gourmet Traveller• Fairfax Media: Good Living, Spectrum, Good Weekend, the (sydney) magazine, Travel + Leisure • News Magazines: australian good taste, Vogue Entertaining + Travel• ABC Radio 702: weekly contributor, The Weekend Show

Australia

• In partnership with DestinationNSW, created Crave Sydney International Food Festival, directed and grew Good Food Month, Australia's largest food festival; The Sydney Morning Herald Growers' Market; NSW Food & Wine Festival (formerly Sydney Cellar Door).• In charge of event creation, curating, delivery, talent recruitment and audience engagement, I expanded a small, Sydney-based festival (200,000 attendees) to a successful national portfolio of food and drinks-based events (2 million+ attendees) in just six years.• Key to this achievement was developing a targetted editorial, marketing, PR and brand strategy, as well as excellent stakeholder management (sponsors/partners/community) and a clear commercial focus.• Strong relationships and networks with media, chefs, festival directors, artisan producers and the food industry - locally, nationally and world-wide - drew leading personalities to participate in, and engage with our events. And to become advocates for Australia as an extraordinary food and wine destination.

• The longest-serving editor of Sydney's most authoritative restaurant guide• Managed a team of up to 45 reviewers to create and publish this annual "bible", including Sydney's most prestigious industry awards - the coveted chef's 'hats', Restaurant of the Year, Chef of the Year, Best New Restaurant and more• Record sales during this time reached 40,000 copies annually

Co-creator and presenter, The Food Lovers' Guide to Australia (SBS TV, Lifestyle, SBS Food)• This award-winning TV food series (still screening somewhere on SBS!) brought the extraordinary cultural and culinary diversity of the Australian food landscape to life, through chefs, farmers, producers and food artisans around the country, and of many different cultural backgrounds.• Co-creator, producer and presenter, I travelled the country meeting some amazing people, spending weeks on the road across this giant continent.• A pioneer in Australian food television, netting several awards, including Best Food TV Show in the World Food Media Awards, 2005.• Sold to pay TV and cable networks around the world and screened in-flight on Qantas.• Wrote and published companion books, Lamington and Lemongrass and The SBS Eating Guides to Sydney and Melbourne (12 editions)

Reporter/producer: Dateline• Worked in international hotspots including Iran, Iraq, Egypt, El Salvador, the US, EU and around Australia as a TV current affairs reporter/presenter/producerChief editor/content director: SBS Digital• Created The Food Lover's Guide to Australia website – format, content, CMS.• Founding editor and content director for SBS TV's first news website: curated and published SBS TV News and Current Affairs and multi-lingual World Watch content, daily V-news bulletinReporter/producer: SBS World News• News, Arts and Ethnic Affairs rounds for this national TV news bulletin in the heady days of multiculturalism, immigration and refugee policy debates, Aboriginal land rights and community arts organisationsSub-titler, translator, script editor: SBS TV• SBS TV’s Subtitling Unit: subtitled, wrote and edited scripts and PR material for everything from 1950s Italian comedies to hard-hitting German documentary series• NAATI accredited translator of French, Italian and German, trained at the Commission of the European Union (EU) in Brussels

Bachelor Of Arts, Languages

Undergraduate degree majoring in French and German. Sub-major in Italian. On graduating I was awarded a scholarship to the University.

Post-Grad Diploma, Communications

Post-graduate diploma in Journalism, TV Production and Film Theory.

Master'S Degree, Gastronomy/Gastronomic Tourism, Graduate Diploma In Gastronomy

Thanks to a scholarship from Le Cordon Bleu, I completed the pre-Masters program in Gastronomy, covering subjects from Food History.