

NANCY HESLIN is an esteemed Monaco media personality who swapped the chilly temps of Canada for year-round sunshine on the Côte d’Azur back in 2001.
She is an accomplished journalist, Editor in Chief, and podcaster, who in March 2026 helped launch Monaco Info’s English-language platform.
She also cofounded Monaco’s first women-owned English-language book publishing house, Carob Tree Publishing.
The media personality hosts the Monaco Info podcast in English series, with guests such as creator of Paw Patrol and Bob the Builder Keith Chapman, Olympian Paula Radcliffe, easyJet founder Sir Stelios, F1 Academy’s Susie Wolff, billionaire John Caudwell and Princess Grace’s nephew, John B Kelly III.
Nancy also hosts the Monaco Info in English platform, creating content for several weekly capsules: Guest of the Week, Hot Topic, The Scoop, Faces & Places, and User Friendly Monaco, which can be seen on Instagram, Linkedin and TikTok.
Nancy is the Editor in Chief of The Monegasque, the English-language arts and culture magazine launched in December 2023. Prior to this she was Editor in Chief of the bimonthly Forbes Monaco, from its launch in November 2018 until January 2023, when it ceased publishing due to licensing terms.
She is the author of the award-winning book, 100 Years of Women: Motorsport in Monaco (Carob Tree Publishing; January 24, 2025). She co-organised the not-for-profit book launch which was attended by Prince Albert and hailed as “an influential event” by FIA.
In March 2024, Nancy cofounded Carob Tree Publishing with film producer Lacey Da Costa. The Monaco-registered SARL is the first 100% women owned and operated maison d’édition in Monaco.
Nancy is a gifted moderator and works with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation (Green Shift Festival, Ocean Week, Blue Economy Index, Re. Ocean Fund, Re.Generation Leadership Program), as well as various banks (BNP Paribas, UBS, BNP, Barclays Monaco).
She also led the 1st Forbes Monaco Power Women’s Summit with Cherie Blair, Shevon Harris-Holyfield and Chinwe Esimai. And moderated Formula E’s Accelerated. Change. Live event in Monaco.
Alongside her husband, she cohosts Nancy & PJ Finally Get Together, a popular podcast launched on January 23, 2023, with listeners in 161 countries, total downloads have reached 185,000 to date (source: Buzzsprout). The podcast is a spinoff of her 75,000-word lived experience non-fiction manuscript.

She also hosted the 2025 Savills Monaco sponsored What’s New in Monaco for Riviera Radio.
From October 2020 to June 2026, Nancy ran the not-for-profit project Good News, Monaco, which she founded during Covid to share positive human interest stories that support the community and local businesses.
Her reputation has had an international dimension for many years. She was interviewed by Sandi Toksvig for Channel 4’s Sandi’s Great Riviera Rail Trip, as well as for ARTE and Channel 5 for documentaries on the Principality. During the aftermath of the Nice Bastille Day attack on July 14, 2016, she appeared on international media: BBC World Service (UK), BBC Northern Ireland, CBC (Canada), CTV News (Canada), Global News (Canada), Morning Report (New Zealand).
In December 2024, Nancy was voted in as president of the Swimrun Monaco. The swimrunner is the former editor of ÖTILLÖ Swimrun Life.
The water sports lover began rowing in 2020 at the Société Nautique de Monaco and sat on the Board from 2023-2024. She won for Monaco at the 2022 French Coastal Rowing Championships for Women’s Masters x4.
Prior to Monaco, for 15 years, Nancy was Editor in Chief of the English-language publication the Riviera Reporter. She has penned for various airline magazines (easyJet Traveller, Norwegian Airlines N Magazine, Iberia Ronda and Wizz) and for 16 years wrote for Fodor’s Travel Guides (France, Provence & The Côte d’Azur and Paris editions). She has contributed to Women’s Running Magazine in the US.
Nancy (Wilson) also reported as a stringer for People Magazine for several years, covering events from the Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Grand Prix, while on other occasions she’s taken the TGV with Tom Cruise to Marseille and sipped champagne with Paris Hilton in St Tropez.
From 2013-2016 Nancy taught “Debates and Interviews” in English at the French École du Journalisme in Nice, where she gave a Master’s course on the History of International Media.
Nancy became a naturalised French citizen in 2010 to obtain the right to vote.
Photo Green Shift Festival: Philippe Fitte/FPA2.
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