Highly experienced and skilled communications professional. Provides high level strategic advice and counsel to individuals and companies. Specialises in reputation, crisis and issues and public affairs. Builds and maintains strong partnerships to deliver tangible results.Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Founding Chartered PR Practitioner.Expertise:1. Extremely experienced in proactive and reactive crisis and issues management at the Conservative Party, News International, Advertising Association and Press Complaints Commission.2. Former Press Secretary to a Conservative Party Leader - Michael Howard3. Expert on handling, training, drafting, analysing public inquiries (led Conservative party response on Hutton Inquiry and Butler Review and PCC handling of Leveson Inquiry. Strong experience of select committees.)4. Adept at producing innovative and counter intuitive solutions to problems such as devising change4life and business4life in response to the threat of advertising restrictions and bans.5. Experience of many case studies of threats to advertising and commercial freedom of expression. Strategy and solutions have worked well6. Experienced in media handling. Solving pre-publication and pre-broadcast issues and challenges.7. Very experienced in regulatory issues and public affairs and communication analysis, challenges and solutions 8. Experienced speech writer for politicians industry leaders and major figures 9. Foreign affairs experience. Led Conservative party communications on foreign affairs dealt with Zimbabwe Afghanistan Iraq Burma Gibraltar EU US. I have trained and advised political leaders and campaigns all over the world - Ghana Tanzania Azerbaijan Poland Bulgaria USA10. All round communications experience -. led strategy and execution on political strategy, campaigning, public affairs, research, press handling, communications, marketing in numerous roles.