Mark Hatcher is the Special Advisor to the Chairman of the Bar of England and Wales. From 2000-2003 Mark was a member of the Regulatory and Professional Affairs Board and Head of Global Public Affairs for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the world's largest professional services organisation. In 2006 he was appointed to lead the Bar Council's Representation and Policy Directorate after having established the public policy advocacy practice of a leading City-based corporate and financial communications consultancy. Mark was Called to the Bar by Middle Temple after graduating from the University of Oxford, where he won the Winter Williams Law Prize. He is also an ad eundem member of Lincoln's Inn. Mark practised as a barrister at 3 New Square chambers before joining the Law Commission to work on law reform. He subsequently worked in the House of Lords, in the Legislation Group of the Lord Chancellor's Department (now the Ministry of Justice), before leaving Whitehall to join the Strategy, Policy and Economics Group of Coopers & Lybrand's management consultancy, where he established the firm's public affairs consulting practice. Mark has led a number of the Bar's Parliamentary campaigns and played a key role in establishing the Bar Council's Communications and Member Services departments, directing the Bar's media relations and developing the Bar Council's international relations functions (including its Brussels Office). Mark is a Bencher of Middle Temple, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and a Corporate and European Fellow of the Industry and Parliament Trust.He is also an ordained priest in the Church of England and Reader of the Temple Church, with a degree in Applied Ministerial Theology. He is married to Clare, a partner in a City law firm.
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