Communicator, strategist, consultant, senior manager and board member with experience of public and commercial sectors and offering the following transferable skills: • Experience of Defence and security policy and economics• Diplomacy and managing multiple stakeholders• Knowledge of Westminster and Whitehall• Extensive 24/7 media communications• Legal and regulatory experience• Financial strategy and acumen• Recruitment, team-building and mentoring• Presentation skills with diverse audiences• Translating policy into communications • Inter-personal skills: mediation and advice• Employment and trade union relations• Technology – procurement and exploitation• Risk management and mitigation I am based in central London and seeking work opportunities in London and south east England, but ready to travel further afield both in the UK and to anywhere in the world.In the words of others:“Good listener, open-minded, diplomatic, persuasive” – former Parliamentary colleague“Lethally astute, great in a crisis, trustworthy and consistent, practical and pragmatic,” – former colleague“Team-builder, empathetic, natural mentor, builds consensus, no airs and graces” – former colleague “Cerebral and sane” – Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian “Clever, inscrutable and deep” – Matthew Parris, The Times “Shrewdly sensible and independent-minded” – political commentator Andrew Roth “Self-deprecating but highly popular” – George Parker, Financial Times “A bright strategist and debater” – Marie Woolf, The Independent“A shrewd political tactician, privately he is a witty and lively man" – Robert Shrimsley, Telegraph