Ronald Hepburn Email & Phone Number

Founder and managing director of geopolitical consultancy Etoile, Ron's international credentials span almost four decades and include strategic projects in Brussels, the Middle East, USA, Europe, Africa, South America and the Far East and ten years with a global investment bank in London.Amongst other matters, he is currently helping British, European and Nordic interests to navigate the fall out from Brexit; was a key advisor, along with the Etoile team, to Prof Swaran Singh's independent Investigation into discrimination in the Conservative Party; is running, with education partner Dr Veli Hillman, a highly skilled and motivated team of Harvard and European PhDs to develop a new standard for protection of children in schools from the unregulated use of their data by education technology companies and is advising a powerful environmental campaign on how to combat big oil in South America.Ron has particular expertise in strategic positioning; crisis preparedness training and simulations; running policy campaigns and assisting start-ups. In Europe he advised the government of Malta on the positioning of its Presidency of the Council of the EU and how to run an EU presidency as a small island nation; ran the award-winning communications programme credited with keeping sterling as the UK currency, and is working to protect the interests of the UK's historic and economically important distant fisheries post Brexit. In New York alongside the UN General Assembly, he helped to create and launch Educate a Child, a programme of Education Above All Foundation, which he also helped to found, that aims to help the 58m children globally denied an education by poverty, conflict or displacement into primary education. This initiative helped more than 10m children were helped into education in just 5 years.He also spoke at the UN's World Export Development Forum on the importance of positioning in country promotion for lesser developed countries. He has been published on strategic positioning as a development tool; corporate responsibility and crisis management. In the energy sector he launched ECX, the carbon credit futures market, winning them dominance in Europe; formulated a transformational positioning for RasGas, the giant LNG producer; and developed campaigns, insights and launches for ExxonMobil in the Middle East and Petronas of Malaysia in South Africa. For the UK govt he led the positioning campaign for NHS Professionals and launched the UK Govt's New Deal, Action for Jobs and Employment Zones.

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