Liam Clements Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Head of the Government Relations Streets and Policing Desk. The desk primarily covers relationships with Government, MPs and London assembly members on issues such as active travel, safer streets, Vision Zero and safety on the network. My responsibilities include:• Effectively developing and managing successful relationships with Government, wider political stakeholders, regional transport authorities and International bodies on issues relating to active travel, safety and security.• Working with colleagues across TfL to ensure the successful implementation of the integrated public affairs strategy, particularly in relation to campaigns and issues relating to the Streets and Policing Desk.• Ensuring senior managers and TfL more widely are well-informed about the policy and political environment by effectively monitoring and analysing developments and communicating them in a timely way. • Supporting senior managers to build successful relationships and attend meetings with political and other stakeholders.• Managing my team to deliver proactive stakeholder engagement and respond rapidly and effectively to any developing issues• Taking an active role in the Government Relations Management Team, ensuring an effective and efficient team.• Safeguarding TfL’s reputation by actively supporting and managing scrutiny, correspondence and information sharing processes.• Accountable for the review and approval of all communications for my desk.• Representing TfL effectively with assigned stakeholder audiences, resolving issues successfully and sharing feedback with the business to continually improve how we deliver a better service for customers. This includes providing prompt escalation to drive quick and expeditions resolutions.• Securing a conducive funding, policy and legislative environment for TfL by working with and supporting senior managers to design and implement campaigns.

London, England, United Kingdom

Effectively developing and managing successful relationships with assigned stakeholders within Government, Parliament, the London Assembly, other UK urban transport authorities, and international bodies to ensure the successful day-to-day delivery of TfL’s public affairs strategy.Providing effective, high-quality, and timely draft responses to Mayor’s Questions, stakeholder correspondence, and VIP correspondence for the Mayor/Deputy Mayor as appropriate. Ensuring relevant feedback and intelligence from stakeholders is fed back into the business to inform decision-making and service improvements.Providing support to manage scrutiny from Government, Parliament, and London Assembly including public scrutiny sessions, as appropriate.Ensuring senior managers and TfL colleagues more widely are well-informed about the policy and political environment by effectively engaging, monitoring, and analyzing developments and communicating them in a timely way to TfL senior managers and the wider business.Providing support across the Government Relations team to help achieve departmental objectives. Demonstrating and establishing collaborative relationships across the organization to ensure effective achievement of TfL and Mayoral goals. Representing the Government Relations team and TfL at appropriate forums as necessary and effective communication of intelligence and insight gathered as a result

City Hall, London

Advising Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM on policing and crime, GLA Oversight and budget matters. Advising Hina Bokhari AM on fire, resilience and emergency planning matters.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Dealing with a wide variety of queries and casework relating to academic issues, disciplinaries, complaints and fitness to practise.• Gaining a strong understanding of university systems, regulations and procedures, and developments in the Higher Education sector more generally.• Accompanying, supporting and representing students at panels and hearings.• Managing a busy service inbox ensuring a strict service response time is always met.• Working independently and managing my own caseload, ensuring data and case notes are stored and filed correctly and in accordance with data protection legislation.• Liaising with the university’s schools, departments and central services regarding cases and ongoing issues, including making representations on behalf of the service at university-wide meetings and forums.• Managing the service when the service manager was away.• Conducting research on thematic issues of concern and making representations and suuggestions to the University.• Nominated and subsequently won a UK recognised WOW Award for ‘interpersonal skills’ after receiving consistently excellent feedback from students.

House Of Commons

Aberystwyth

• Responsible for maintaining the MP’s constituency diary.• Managing anything up to 150 cases at any one time in all manner of areas including: welfare benefits; immigration and citizenship; broadband and connectivity problems; rural and land disputes and licensing and civil disputes. Including supporting constituents at important meetings, hearings and tribunals.• Ensuring that all data and casework is stored safely and that data protection principles were adhered to.• Set up and updated successful social media profile using branding, algorithms and infographics to reach as wide and suitable an audience as possible.• Liaising with local and national media and formulating strategies to increase media presence.• Writing speeches and briefings on a range of topics for the Member.• Writing Parliamentary Questions for the Member, both written and oral.• Formulating policy responses for the Member on all issues and doing detailed policy research for the Member in preparation for debates and media appearances.• Splitting my time working between the constituency and the Westminster office in London.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

After the resignation of the chair, I chaired the organisation and managed its finances. I followed with organising early elections to replace the executive, appointing a returning officer and putting out notices as well as guiding the organisation until new officers were elected.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Responsible for all of the chair's activities and duties in her absence. As part of the role I organised the Liberal Youth Wales presence at conferences, and sit on the Welsh Liberal Democrat Conference Committee. I also sat on the Welsh Liberal Democrat National Executive Committee and managed the finances of Liberal Youth Wales.

Aberystwyth

• Developed weekly summaries of events Welsh politics for clients including universities, government bodies and private organisations.• Helped move the Wales Yearbook to an online platform and helped with the final hard-copy that would be published. I was one of only 3 employees with an administrative account for the website.• Performed social research tasks in partnership with the design team at the company, and provided much of the information used on adverts and brochures that they published.

Aberystwyth

Political Studies student, with a particular interest in devolution, US politics, humanitarian issues and peacekeeping.

• I took responsibility for going to press conferences and writing press releases for Darren and the wider group.• Writing briefings on issues not only to do with health and the National Health Service, but also constituency school and hospital closures, flood defences in Wales and the illegal year-round occupation of holiday caravans.• Conducting research in a number of policy areas ranging from health and wellbeing to ideas and possibilities for the commemoration of the centenary of World War One.

Bscecon, Political Studies, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Liberal Democrats

High School, A-Levels

Eleven GCSEs, 6 at Grade A & the rest Grade B. Three A-Levels in Government & Politics, English Literature and History, all at Grade B.