Harry Miskin Email & Phone Number

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

I currently work closely with the Ministry’s senior leadership on the strategy and execution of programmes to transform perceptions of the UAE’s governance of labour and migration. This involves working across issues including labour market regulation, migration policy, the future of work, remittances and development. Key stakeholders range from foreign leaders and senior policymakers at relevant intergovernmental organisations to international journalists, civil society organisations, employers and workers. Responsibilities include drafting written communications, strategy and message development, representing the UAE in international meetings, attitudinal insight development and analysis. Efforts to communicate better have helped to transform international views, from deep concerns with labour rights to a more nuanced understanding of the dynamism and competitiveness of the Arab world’s second wealthiest economy. For the last two years, I have been based in Belgium, working remotely.

Middle East, London

Based first for four years in London at the specialist geopolitical unit of Bell Pottinger, Sans Frontieres, followed by three years leading the growth of international business in the UAE, my work involved some of the most challenging communications briefs of the period. Notable client work included: UAE National Media Council • Creating and delivering the UAE's international communications strategy in six key markets, targeting key opinion formers in UK, US, EU, Russia, India Ministry of Labour• Led work to develop a new international relations and communications office within the MinistryLibyan National Dialogue• A year spent in Libya delivering a pan-national programme in support of Libyan efforts to broker national reconciliationSouth Stream • Built an international agency network across five countries (Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy) to enable political and media support for key pipelineCuadrilla Resources• Developed strategy for Cuadrilla as preferred partner for governments in unlocking of European unconventional oil and gasBP Biofuels• Supported a strategic response to environmental challenges to biofuels industry and positioned BP Biofuels’ business as sector leaders for social responsibilityEuropean External Action Service – Libya 2011• Deployed in-country to Benghazi during 2011 Arab Spring on behalf of EEAS’s Instrument for Stability Ernst & Young• Led on WEF launch of ‘Globalisation Index 2012’ report, E&Y’s major annual report into global competitiveness, with Economist Intelligence UnitFacebook• Worked with VP for EMEA, Joanna Shields, to develop a narrative and communications campaign

• Co-founded agency providing digital and social media and production services to clients including Nokia, Changing Faces and Common Purpose

Literary agent• Highlights included discovering and developing Ed Husain’s The Islamist, which went on to become a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize

English Literature & Language

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