Alexandra McNicoll studied at the University of St Andrews and at Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV), graduating with an MA in French. After working briefly at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, she joined Conville & Walsh in September 2008.
Fluent in Dutch and French, Alexandra is the foreign rights manager at the agency, responsible for selling translation rights directly into Brazil, Greece, France, Denmark, the Netherlands and Poland, as well as dealing with associate agents for the sale of Eastern European, Chinese, Japanese and Korean rights.