Eve was born in Melbourne, Victoria. Educated at Methodist Ladies College, she holds a Degree in Social Sciences from the Professional Studies Faculty at Monash University with subjects including Management of Organisational Behaviour and Performance and Sociology. Her earlier studies at Monash on leaving college as an honours student, focused on the humanities - English, French and German. 

After commencing a career in the publishing industry with Vogue Australia, Eve held a number of high profile career roles in Melbourne and Sydney, including National Publicity Manager for Community Aid Abroad and Merchandising Manager (Southern Hemisphere) for ACP Publishing. 

Eve's career in recruitment commenced when she occupied the Sydney position of National Public Relations Manager for Centacom - a large personnel organisation whose branch offices grew to number forty five in Australia and the United Kingdom. 

After relocating to Europe, Eve took up the position of U.K. Account Executive for Estee Lauder in charge of London's major department stores in the West End. She spent seven years on the Continent in London, Brussels and Paris before returning to Melbourne in the mid eighties. 

Eve joined an IT organisation (CASAC Pty Ltd) as Marketing and Development Contracting Manager. This organisation was bought out by Paxus who appointed Eve to the National Marketing and Publicity Manager of the Contract Consulting Division with client and contracting activity centred mainly in Melbourne and Sydney. Since her departure from Paxus the company was taken over by US based Continuum and more recently CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation). 

Eve started her own organisation, Eve Howard & Associates International Recruitment, in late 1988 offering global recruitment services in Executive Search, Permanent Placement and Contracting, catering predominantly to the Vendor community as well as select user sites. 

An accomplished public speaker, Eve has participated as a keynote speaker and chairperson at overseas recruitment industry seminars, where she has presented papers on leadership and motivation relative to recruiting, retaining and reskilling information technology professionals. As a writer, Eve has also been a contributing editor to IT industry magazines on local personnel issues. 

Clients wishing to send email directly to Eve Howard, please address to evehoward@bigpond.com