We can achieve so much when we work together. That's why we teamed up to launch Editing Globally. We have combined our individual strengths and created a stronger collective to provide you with clear and consistent editing that fits your communications brief every time.

Aalap Trivedi (he/il) has been an editor since 2015. His educational background is in corporate law and governance, economics, and business management. While these areas form his core expertise, he is also comfortable working with material in social social and economic history, general history, politics, and international relations.

In addition, Aalap has also developed proficiency in technical editing, specifically related to the skilled trades. He edits textbooks and learning materials for automotive service technician, electrician, plumber, power engineer, sheet metal worker, and steamfitter-pipefitter.

Aalap is able to work on different kinds of projects: books, research/scholarly papers and reports, policy papers, annual reports, and catalogues.

Aalap has worked in different settings – editing agencies, ad agencies, and technical education publishers – as well as with different types of clients, such as local businesses, university presses, and individual authors. He particularly enjoys working with writers for whom English is a foreign language because, being multilingual himself, he understands how others use English in their written communication.

Aalap is an Advanced Professional Member (APM) of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), where he volunteers his time in local and special interest groups. He is also a member of Editors Canada (where he is part of the editorial board of The Editors’ Weekly, the official English-language blog of Editors Canada) and a member of Plain Canada Clair, Canada’s plain language organization.

Aalap believes in continuous learning and is therefore almost always enrolled in some programme or another. When not working, he is often found reading a book or enjoying a coffee in a local café (or both simultaneously) or walking or cycling (regardless of the weather). Aalap’s taste in music ranges from rock and metal to ghazals to classical.

Aalap's website is at https://draftedservices.ca.

Ayesha Chari (she/they) is an independent editor and publishing consultant helping interdisciplinary scholars make their research widely accessible, express ideas with sensitivity and clarity, and take new voices to growing audiences. Ayesha’s aim is to help diverse authors within and beyond the academy communicate their work and life stories.

She provides substantive editing/rewriting, copyediting, and reference editing services for academic, scholarly, and non-fiction texts, with an equally sensitive approach to the writer’s voice and the reader’s expectations. Ayesha believes in words having the strength to build bridges and create a borderless, inclusive world.

Ayesha has over 20 years of editing and publishing experience, running her own editing business for 12 years, before which for a decade she worked in house with Macmillan India (editing STM journal articles) and Seagull Books (editing books – trade, fiction and non-fiction, world literature, English translations, culture, politics, performance, art, cinema, theatre, and much more).

Ayesha is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading in the UK and a full member of ACES: The Society for Editing in the US. They write for The Edit Better Letter’s Proof Pros contributions.

When not at her desk, Ayesha binges on books and Indian films, occasionally doodles, often hugs trees, ponders world problems far too much, drinks coffee, but mostly enjoys co-parenting and unlearning norms with her husband and their child.

Ayesha's website is at www.ayeshachari.com.

With nearly 30 years of communications expertise, Erin helps organizations develop clear, effective content for their most important projects. Based in the Northeastern United States, she focuses on complex institutional work, including policy reports, white papers, annual reports, corporate communications, research publications, and thought leadership content.

Erin understands that your high-stakes documents require more than just good grammar—they need an editor who grasps the nuances of your field and can enhance your message while preserving your authoritative voice. Whether you’re communicating research findings, policy recommendations, or organizational impact, she works collaboratively to ensure your content achieves its strategic goals.

Her background includes editing for organizations such as the Center for New American Security, Data & Society, Trinity Church New York, and SAP. She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading and Full Member of ACES: The Society for Editing.

Erin is also the author of The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors (University of Chicago Press, 2024) and winner of the 2024 Robinson Prize from ACES: The Society for Editing.

When she’s not working, you’ll find Erin hiking with her family, knitting, or just lying around, reading a good book, mug of tea in hand.

Contact Erin to discuss how thoughtful editing can strengthen your organization’s most valuable projects.

Erin's website is at https://www.righttouchediting.com.

A UK-based editorial professional with more than 30 years’ experience of working with words, in translation (French to English), proofreading, and copyediting, who is also adept at formatting and page layout.

After teaching English in Portugal for two years, Etty was an in-house translator for 14 years, including four years in Brussels and Paris followed by 10 years at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

Etty left the Council of Europe to return to the UK, and after a break to raise a young family (and run a complementary medicine business), she resumed her translating, editing, and proofreading on a self-employed basis. She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) in the UK.

She works on fiction and nonfiction, offering services to a broad range of clients including book publishers, magazine publishers, schools, businesses, charities, medical experts, students, and self-publishers. Etty specializes in medico-legal reports, health and medicine, school reports, international development, and luxury magazines and high-end lifestyle publications targeted at high-net-worth individuals. She also particularly enjoys working on subjects as wide ranging as photography, dogs, popular science, football, and food.

When she’s not working, Etty is walking in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside around her home, meeting and cuddling dogs, or simply eating good food, all while listening to her daughter’s brilliant musical compositions!

Etty's own website is at www.elegantwords.co.uk.

Janet MacMillan (she/elle) is a Toronto- and UK-based non-fiction editor who has been editing since 2004. She provides compassionate, good-humoured, and pragmatic professional editing services to wide variety of clients. She is nonjudgemental, resourceful and seeks to uphold the highest ethical standards.

Her clients include global professional services firms, businesses, NGOs, nonprofits, international development agencies, policy centres, think tanks and academics. Janet is committed to inclusivity and internationality and welcomes clients wherever they are based. Many of her clients are multilingual authors.

Her primary fields of work are law and law-related topics (she was a lawyer for 20 years in her past), international development and aid, modern history, politics, and education materials. She helps her clients to communicate their message in clear, plain English, ensuring that their work is accessible to their audience.

Janet is committed to advancing the profile of professional editors, mentoring and volunteerism within the profession. She has taught editing courses in the Queen’s University Professional Studies Editing Standards Certificate programme. She also presents seminars, webinars, and conference sessions on editing, proofreading and the publishing industry generally.

She is the co-coordinator of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading’s Canada local group, the coordinator of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading’s legal special interest group, and for many years was the coordinator of Cloud Club West. Janet was a co-coordinator of the CIEP’s mini-conferences in Toronto. From October 2022 to February 2024, she was the CIEP’s professional standards director.

She is a past recipient of the Editors Canada President’s Award for Volunteer Services for her work on the Toronto and national Editing Canada mentoring programs.

Janet is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading.

When not working, Janet is usually found walking or playing with her dog, cooking for family and friends, reading, and visiting friends, both across Canada and further afield.

Janet's own website is at www.janetmacmillanwordsmith.com.

With over 20 years in the world of publishing and communications, Kelly is an experienced and reliable editor and proofreader. She was awarded the Marsh Jeanneret Memorial Award in 2008 for excellence in editing from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) and has worked with hundreds of authors from around the world on a variety of topics.

She is particularly adept at editing fiction (children’s, young adult, and adult) and creative nonfiction (memoirs, personal growth, and spiritual) and enjoys working with these authors to polish their prose and strengthen their stories. And with all her clients, she maintains clarity, coherence, consistency, and correctness.

Based in Toronto, Canada, after exciting professional stints in Los Angeles, California, and London, England, she is comfortable editing to Canadian, US, or UK spelling and style.

Kelly is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP).

Kelly loves attending concerts, travelling across time zones, all things Italian, walks in nature, magical realism, and baseball (go, Jays!).

Kelly's own website is at www.kellylambediting.com.

Madeline has been copyediting and proofreading since she joined the Editors’ Association of Canada in 1990. She has worked on a broad assortment of books, reports, papers, and magazines.

Madeline has worked on publications on Canadian foreign policy, the global governance of climate change, and artificial intelligence in the military, as well as on the global governance of noncommunicable disease and on virtual mobility and higher education.

Since 1999, she has served as the executive director of the Global Governance Program based at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. It includes the G7 and G20 Research Groups, as well as the BRICS Research Group, and so Madeline has developed an expertise in global summitry. It also includes the Global Health Diplomacy Program. She is co-editor of three series of publications published by GT Media and its Global Governance Project: a series on the G7, one on the G20, and one on “Health: A Political Choice.” All these publications, along with other occasional editions—such as one on “Financing a Just Transition”—are available at www.g7g20.utoronto.ca/books.

From 1998 to 2017, Madeline was the production manager for the Literary Review of Canada, a 32-page magazine published 10 times a year, a fun gig that kept her in touch with public policy, social and cultural issues, and the top books being published in Canada.

In addition to copyediting and proofreading, Madeline also offers basic layout services for books and reports.

Madeline enjoys travelling, which she often gets to do as a result of her G7 and G20 work. She appreciates a good meal, a good book and a good view.

Madeline's own website is at www.madelinekoch.ca.

A UK-based editorial professional with more than 30 years’ experience of creating, editing, and quality assuring documentation in a number of roles in education, information technology, and business.

After starting his career as a physics and mathematics teacher, Martin moved into IT, where he has worked as a trainer, consultant, and project manager. In the 1990s, he worked at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and was responsible for providing and supporting the IT capability of the Council’s libraries in the new member states from the former Eastern Bloc, including Russia, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovakia.

More recently, Martin has worked for an international financial systems company, running global IT and security projects across more than 30 countries. Over the last five years, he has been transitioning from employment in IT and business into the freelance editorial world.

Martin is a Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) in the UK, and he specializes in mathematics, science, IT, business, finance, sport, and absolutely anything to do with technology. His technical background means he is very quick to pick up all the technical aspects of any software package and he is particularly adept at formatting Microsoft Word documents, and using InDesign to produce high-quality publications. Martin developed this website for Editing Globally and was part of the team that managed the CIEP website.

When he’s not working, Martin enjoys cooking (meals for Etty), walking in the Yorkshire countryside, and watching most sports on TV.

Martin's own website is at www.clearedit.co.uk.