Hester has been a journalist and communicator for most of her career, specialising in making complex issues accessible to different audiences across business and culture. Hester develops new business for Stop Scams UK and leads its engagement on policy, best practice and collaboration internationally against fraud and scams. She was a foreign and financial correspondent and magazine editor at Reuters, with news and features published all over the world. Immediately before stepping into the world of fraud and scams, she led a National Lottery Heritage-funded project to create a new public visitor experience at Willesden Cemetery, one of the UK’s least known Victorian cemeteries.