Julia Hobsbawm OBE (born 15 August 1964) is a British businesswoman, entrepreneur, writer and broadcaster on the future of work. She is the founder and CEO of global trends network Workathon and is developing a new global framework for work with The World Work Organisation.

Born in 1964 in London, England, Julia Hobsbawm is the daughter of historian Eric Hobsbawm and music teacher Marlene Schwarz, both European emigres. She grew up in Hampstead, attending Camden School for Girls.

In the early 1980s, she studied French and Italian at the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster), leaving without qualifications after failing to transfer to Media Studies.

Hobsbawm began her career in publishing, and worked as a researcher in television, including on Wogan, before moving to political fundraising ahead of the Labour Party 1992 General Election.

In 1993, Hobsbawm founded the public relations firm Hobsbawm Macaulay Communications with her friend Sarah Brown.

In 2005, Hobsbawm founded Editorial Intelligence, a knowledge networking business that pioneered diverse network thinking. The company launched several initiatives, including the ideas conference Names Not Numbers, The Comment Awards celebrating opinion journalism, and The Human and the Machine, a technology-focused conference and podcast series.

Hobsbawm is a regular media commentator and broadcaster and speaks frequently to corporate audiences and policymakers on topics including the future of work, hybrid working, productivity, and navigating complexity with simplicity. She has appeared on programmes such as BBC Question Time, BBC Newsnight, and The Today Programme, and has delivered talks for organisations including Google, McKinsey & Company, the OECD, and the UK Civil Service.

She began hosting The Nowhere Office podcast with Stefan Stern in March 2021.