Farrah Storr

Farrah Storr is the award-winning editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan. Since taking over the brand in 2015 she led the magazine through a dramatic new look leading to the magazine becoming the best-selling young women’s title in the UK and increasing circulation by an unprecedented 59%.

Prior to this Farrah launched Women’s Health in the UK, where under her leadership it became the most successful women’s magazine launch of the decade. Farrah has held high profile positions at many of the UK’s and Australia’s glossy women’s magazines including features director at Marie Claire in Sydney and Glamour UK.

Farrah is one of the leading voices for millennial women overseeing the Cosmopolitan brand which reaches 10 million women across digital, social and print every month. In 2016 she gave a TEDX London talk on the female leadership in the workplace and in 2018 her first non-fiction book on fearlessness (The Dis Comfort Zone: How To Get What You Want by Living Fearlessly) will be published by Piatkus.

She is a regular talking head on TV, has been a mentor on Britain’s Next Top Model for the last three years and is on the media advisory board for All Bright, the female business network that provided funding for female founders in the UK.

In 2017 Farrah was named as one of only 36 BAME leaders in the UK. Of the 1,049 most powerful people in Britain, just 36 are from ethnic minorities – and Farrah is one of only seven women. In 2018, Farrah was named ‘Editor of the Year’ at the PPA Awards and The Magazine Editor’s Awards. She was also included on The Drums Best 50 Female Speakers in the UK list.

Farrah is internationally recognised as a leading authority on print and digital publishing, fashion, branding, international and current affairs and lifestyle as an author and journalist. She is an excellent moderator, host and presenter and speaks on leadership, motivation, diversity, media, press relations, Asia relations, woman’s rights, health and travel.