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The team in London Politics International's consultants are drawn from all parts of the political process and represent all shades of political opinion. Andrew Dunlop Founder of Politics International, Andrew started his career in international banking before joining the Conservative Research Department, first as an adviser on Trade & Industry matters, and then as head of its Political Section. He went on to become Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Defence, and in 1988 became an adviser to the Prime Minister as a member of the Downing Street Policy Unit. During his two and a half year tour in the Unit, he covered a range of policy areas in the economic and social fields. Andrew works for a broad range of clients, specialising in the transport, defence, and financial services sectors. He also advises clients involved in mergers and acquisitions, co-ordinating Politics International’s Competition & Regulation Practice. Andrew has a Post Graduate Diploma in European Competition Law from King's College, London. Email: andrew.dunlop@politicsint.co.uk Amanda Cunningham Amanda joined Politics International in 1994 and was appointed to the Board in 2000. She manages all company operations, including human resources, finance, administration, new business and marketing. She is responsible for staff recruitment, training and development and manages the monitoring and information team. Amanda is the company’s quality manager and has steered the company through Investors in People recognition. She holds the IoD’s Diploma in Company Direction. Email: amanda.cunningham@politicsint.co.uk Ben
Ruffels Ben graduated from the University of Manchester with a BsocSc (Hons) degree in Politics in 1998, and an MA (Econ) Political Science in 1999. He worked for the specialist information team of The Bankers Almanac at Reed Business Information before joining Politics International as a researcher in 2002. Ben was promoted to a consultant in 2003 and specialises in the financial services sector. Email: ben.ruffels@politicsint.co.uk Bill Clare Bill joined Politics International in 2006 after ten years in a series of high-level government, media and political positions in the Diplomatic Service, 10 Downing Street and the House of Commons. Foremost amongst these was as Press Officer to the Prime Minister. Prior to that, he had been Private Secretary to both Conservative and Labour Foreign Office ministers on either side of the 1997 election, before moving to the FCO Press Office. He and his family had previously served in Iran, the US and Finland. More recently, Bill has been Chief of Staff to Dr Liam Fox MP, who during this period was variously Conservative Party Chairman and Shadow Foreign, Defence and Health Secretary. Bill ran his 2005 party leadership campaign. He also ran the press campaign for Michael Howard’s successful leadership bid and works across a range of clients, focusing on the defence and aerospace sectors. Email: bill.clare@politicsint.co.uk Brian Wadsworth Formerly the Director for Strategic Roads, Planning and National Networks at the Department for Transport, Brian has over 30 years experience of working on transport policy. Brian continues as Chairman of the Board of the European Maritime Safety Agency, a position which he has held since 2003. He has a global reputation in the shipping, ports and logistics sectors, having led the Department’s multimodal freight and logistics activities, as Director of Logistics and Maritime Transport, for 10 years. He also served as Chairman of the international Consultative Shipping Group between 1999 and 2007. During the 1980s Brian was extensively involved in transport sector privatisation and restructuring programmes. He led the liberalisation and privatisation of the rail freight sector and subsequently served as an adviser on transport issues to the World Bank. He has worked at British Airways and in the road transport sector. In his earlier career, Brian served as Private Secretary to two Ministers of Transport. Brian also has significant experience of modernising Government services, having led a multiple award-winning project to modernise lorry and bus operator licensing, simplify regulation and improve compliance Email: brian.wadsworth@politicsint.co.uk David Carnell David graduated from the University of Leeds with a BA (Hons) degree in Political Studies in 2004. Prior to joining Politics International as a monitoring executive in 2005, David worked as a project technician for Atkins Global. Email: david.carnell@politicsint.co.uk David Massingham David originally worked for a campaigning environmental organisation before becoming a policy adviser in local government. He was a senior civil servant in the Departments of Environment and Transport and the Cabinet Office. David joined Politics International in 1995 and specialises in environmental and energy policy, and in particular on planning, land use, waste management and pollution control and renewable energy. David co-ordinates Politics International’s Local Solutions Practice, including specialist community liaison and consultation. He was appointed to the Board in 1999. Email: david.massingham@politicsint.co.uk Eliza Silk Eliza graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MA in German in 1998, and from Magdalen College, Oxford with an MPhil in European Politics in 2001. She then joined the Ministry of Defence Fast Stream where she toured through a number of posts. These included media planning, biological arms control, performance and analysis, secondment to the High Representative for the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy in Brussels and, finally, business development. In 2006, having left the MoD as a Civil Servant, Eliza was employed as a consultant by the Hydrographice Office (a Ministry of Defence Trading Fund) to support a ministerial review of the Trading Fund’s ownership options. In 2008, Eliza joined Politics International, where she specialises in defence, offering clients strategic advice and support with the development and implementation of public affairs campaigns. Eliza is a Board member of the FCO’s Wilton Park British-German Forum. Email: eliza.silk@politicsint.co.uk George McGregor George was Special Adviser to Rt Hon Helen Liddell MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, before joining Politics International in 2004. In this role, he took lead responsibility for ensuring partnership working between the UK Government and the Scottish executive, and shaped media strategy for the department. Previously he was Scottish policy and research officer for public services union UNISON, playing a key campaigning role. A former member of Labour's National Policy Forum, he was responsible for drafting sections of Labour's Scottish manifesto for the 2001 General Election. Email: george.mcgregor@politicsint.co.uk Harry Smith Harry graduated from the University of Bath in 2006 with a BSc (Hons) in Politics with Economics. He first worked at Politics International in 2004 as part of his degree where he was a Monitoring Assistant, providing information, support and political intelligence to Politics International’s clients. Harry also coordinates Politics International’s training course, Politics Explained, and supports the company’s select committee training service. He is a regular contributor to Politics Informed, the company’s newsletter. He also works as an Account Executive for Politics International’s clients in the Consumer and Leisure, Transport and Public Services sectors including SABMiller, St John Ambulance, IAPRA and Halton Borough Council. His work in these areas focuses on stakeholder engagement and management at local, national and international levels. Harry is a member of the Labour Party and a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. He is currently studying for the CIPR Advanced Certificate in Public Relations at Birkbeck College, University of London. Email: harry.smith@politicsint.co.uk Jaishree Narayanan Jaishree Narayanan has a postgraduate degree in Financial Economics and worked in India as a financial journalist before becoming a business analyst with the Bombay based Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). She moved to the UK and joined Politics International in 1998 as Information Manager. Jay co-ordinates Politics International’s IT network and manages the office. She is responsible for monitoring the European Union. Email: jay.narayanan@politicsint.co.uk Katie Wyglendacz Katie graduated from the University of Bath with a BSc (Hons) Politics with Economics in 2003. She worked as an intern for a year in Politics International’s monitoring unit as part of her degree, and re-joined Politics International in 2003. Katie was promoted to consultant in 2005 and works on a range of clients, predominantly in the leisure and transport sectors. She is a member of the Politics Informed editorial board and is a regular contributor to the company’s newsletter. Email: katie.wyglendacz@politicsint.co.uk Lee Whitehill Lee was Head of Campaigns and Internal Communications at Amicus before joining PI as a consultant in 2005. In his former role he was responsible for driving high profile campaigns on behalf of the Union, at both a national and European level. A co-founder of the Corporate Social Responsibility Foundation, Lee has previously worked for the Labour Party, most recently during the 2005 General Election. Lee holds the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Diploma and focuses on PI’s defence and aerospace clients. Email: lee.whitehill@politicsint.co.uk Melanie Worthy Melanie Worthy joined Politics International as a political consultant providing specialist advice on public policy issues facing financial services companies and its public stakeholders. Melanie brings considerable expertise in financial services having worked for 20 years in the sector: within financial services regulation, for the Financial Services Authority (FSA), as a policy adviser for the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and the Investment Management Association (IMA) and as a strategy consultant. She also contributes articles in the regulatory and public affairs financial services arena. Email: melanie.worthy@politicsint.co.uk Nicole Fuller Nicole is working at PI on a 12 month placement from the University of Bath where she is studying for a Politics with Economics degree. Nicole works in the company’s monitoring unit. Nicole is responsible in particular for monitoring the political parties, devolved assemblies and the European Union. She provides support and research for all our teams and clients. Email: nicole.fuller@politicsint.co.uk Nick Gash Nick has been an Associate Consultant with Politics International since January 2007. Since 2004 he has developed his own successful consultancy offering policy advice and bespoke communications audits and personal development training. Before that Nick worked for the National Union of Students as the National Director. His work with NUS gave him extensive experience in designing and running training programmes dealing with a variety of complex institutions. The experience has left Nick with a unique insight into high profile campaigning and an invaluable network of political and business contacts. Nick has particular expertise in the education and skills arena but has broad experience of public policy at a national and local level. He is a Non-Executive Director of the West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust. Email: nick.gash@blueyonder.co.uk Stephen Edwards Stephen graduated from the London School of Economics in 1999 with an MSc in European Politics and Policy. He started his political career as a researcher at the Foreign Policy Centre before joining Politics International as a monitoring executive in 2000. Stephen worked on the UK’s first electronic political campaign for the Labour Party during the Mayoral election 2000, applying this experience again during the 2001 general election. He is a member of the Politics Informed editorial board and is a regular contributor to the company’s newsletter. Stephen co-ordinates Politics International’s European Union public affairs team and is a member of the company’s Communications Practice. Email: stephen.edwards@politicsint.co.uk Stephen Bramall Steve worked for 15 years at the Department of Transport, where he advised ministers on a range of transport policy issues and oversaw four Transport Bills through Parliament. For two years, he was Principal Private Secretary to successive ministers of state for transport including Sir David Mitchell and Michael Portillo. Steve joined Politics International in 2005 and works across the range of PI’s transport clients, providing specialist advice including in support of clients’ bids for public sector contracts. Email: stephen.bramall@politicsint.co.uk Tanya Bloom Tanya graduated from Durham University in 2005 with BA(Hons) History and then from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2006 with MSc International Relations. Her career to date has seen experience both in Parliament and government, most recently in the Department for Work and Pensions, where she worked on the Child Maintenance Redesign Programme, where she contributed to the set-up of a new child maintenance system in the UK. On promotion to the Private Office of the Chair Designate of the new Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (C-MEC), she helped deliver a new stakeholder strategy and appointment of C-MEC's board. Tanya has also worked in the House of Commons, as an intern and Parliamentary Assistant to Douglas Carswell MP, Member of Parliament for Harwich and Member of the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee and the Joint Committee on Human Rights. Much of her work focused on engaging with the local electorate, particularly in digital media, where she helped to develop a number of websites and web communication tools, in addition to providing a Parliamentary monitoring role. In 2008, Tanya joined Politics International, where she specialises in planning, education and , offering clients strategic advice and support with the development and implementation of public affairs campaigns. Email: tanya.bloom@politicsint.co.uk
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