Head of the communications team in Brussels for EU wide public affairs, communications and strategy.Lead the communications team of 6 in the Brussels EU Office, responsible for EU-wide communications, public relations and policy and Government relations engagement strategy, and ESG strategy and implementation. Managed projects with several hundredthousand-euro budgets, and an overall comms budget of several million Euro.• Developed the communications strategy and media relations strategy for office, and across the EU - specifically for EU/US/China geopolitical situation, supply chain, chips, 5G, cybersecurity and connectivity. Coordinated with other European offices and headquarters to oversee its implementation. Developed key messages and content.• Selected and managed external partners and agencies, and consultants.• Participated in the key decision-making meetings and policy development sessions. Worked closely with the policy teams to develop policy, messaging and the strategy to implement, communicate and engage on our key policy messages and to advance our policy work across the EU and beyond.• Responsible for building top level journalist/media relations, crisis management and crisis strategies. Oversaw the social media strategy for the office and approved all events, ensuring they meet the key message and purpose requirements. Primary media contact and spokesperson.• Member of several internal policy panels, including the Human Rights committee, and the global Editorial board and was the European spokesperson for our Tech4All initiative, with special focus on biodiversity projects.• Developed/ wrote briefings for senior executives, worked with their offices to write speeches, op eds and articles and develop strategies to maximise their impact in Europe, and identify events and opportunities for speaking, participation and engagement. Senior c-suite advisor.• Identified, recruited and mentored new staff.

• Responsible for planning, running the BBC's News coverage on a daily basis across its multiple outlets and platforms, and News editing and producing in the Newsroom and in the field on breaking news and major news events and with senior correspondents on stories for domestic and foreign news.• I took the lead on major stories editorially and logistically, managing demands for teams in the field from many BBC outlets and our partners. I also filed reports myself for radio and TV as required.• Lead daily and weekly conference calls, planning and editorial meetings, updating teams and editors on stories and deployments• I ensured a clear chain of command and guidance from the field when on deployment, with clear editorial, safety, logistical and practical advice to the News desk and News Editors back at base.• I was one of only a handful of News Editors deployed on major coverage, breaking news and to News Edit in the field set-piece events and major broadcasts/live presentations on location.• I also ran all of our domestic bureaus across the UK when the bureau Editors required or there was no permanent bureau chief• Covered stories all over the world, and all major UK stories.

• Responsible for overseeing the daily coverage across BBC News outlets on television, radio and online from the Americas and deputising for the America Bureau Chief when required - for the first two months of my attachment I ran the bureau during the extremely busy time of the Syria crisis, the impending shut-down and budget negotiations, and several breaking news stories.• I was responsible for the daily management of 100 members of staff, alongside the Bureau Chief, based in the bureau and across the Americas. My role was to provide an editorial overview of the correspondents, the forward planning operation and the roles of the producers based in Washington, New York and Los Angeles.• I was responsible for the editorial oversight of all package content for television and radio from the Americas which included the BBC's News at Ten, News at Six and The Today Programme to name a few.• The BBC's Americas news operation has a multi-million-dollar budget. I worked directly with the Director of Finance and Operations in Washington D. C and London. I had a key role to ensure that we worked within budget in all aspects of the running of the bureau, which included freelance budgets, camera crews and coverage costs and the management of the rotas.• I was the BBC's key representative for all relations with ABC News, the BBC's then American news partner – and transformed the way the News desk operated during my time there.• I was also responsible for the financial management of all deployments in the Americas, giving regular updates on the expenditure of on-going stories and costs associated with commissions to the Bureau Chief and to senior management in London.

News Editor, Olympic Torch Relay, BBC News, February 2012-September 2012:Part of a small team responsible for planning/covering the historic Olympic Torch Relay across the UK. It required strict budget adherence, and many hours of negotiations internally within the BBC and with the Olympic organisers as well as UK government, local government, the police , the army , navy and air force to name a few. All of the coverage required live event planning and planning for news bulletins, radio and digital. Some of the events I was specifically personally responsible for included the torch’s arrival on the UK mainland, its arrival in Liverpool , its tour of Windsor castle and greeting by the Queen, its arrival at Buckingham palace and meeting with William, Kate and Harry , and its final day in London arriving by air at the Tower of London. All of these events stretched the technology and our imagination to the limit and required us to solve problems never before encountered in news coverage. The whole coverage was nominated for a BAFTA.News Editor General Election Lib Dem Leader Team, January 2010-June 2010:I was the team leader on the Lib Dem team for the 2010 General Election, responsible for a team of 10 journalists. We were required to provide live coverage and packaged material for all news outlets wherever the Leader team went, by land, sea and air. It was my responsibility to build relations and contacts with Nick Clegg and his press team, to advise London and Westminster of editorial lines, movements , important developments, and to work out the logistics on an hour by hour basis as events unfolded. As the story developed, we of course became the story that election, which resulted in us also being the main coverage team for the coalition negotiations, 24 hours a day for over a week after the actual election. The role also required me to foster good relations with the other broadcasters and journalists, while maintaining a competitive advantage over them.

I was part of the team responsible for planning news coverage. This coincided with the beginning of the BBC's 24-hour news channel.