The Government Affairs Group executive committee consists of a chairman, two vice chairmen, an honorary secretary, an honorary treasurer, a membership secretary and six ordinary members of the committee. The committee is elected annually at the Group's AGM in March or April, although there is some scope for additional co-options.
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Chairman
Iain Anderson MCIPR
iain.anderson@cicero-europe.com
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Director, Chief Corporate Counsel, Cicero Consulting.
Iain leads Cicero Consulting's corporate communications practice and has over 18 years' experience in politics, public affairs campaigning and business journalism. Iain has advised numerous organisations, including financial institutions, trade and regulatory bodies, NGOs and political parties in the UK and US. Iain is a regular contributor on financial services issues to broadcast media and the financial press. |
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Vice-Chairman
Deborah Powton FCIPR
deborah@swa-pr.co.uk
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Deborah is Director of Sam Weller Associates (PR). |
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Vice Chairman
Jonathan French MCIPR
jonathan.french@tlg-ltd.com
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Jon is a Senior Consultant at TLG Communications, delivering Thought Leadership advice to a range of clients. Prior to that he was Assistant Director, Media Relations at the Association of British Insurers, Communications Manager for the British Army and held several senior communications posts at Conservative Central Office. He served on the CIPR Board for a full three-year term and remains a member of the CIPR Council. He joined the GAG Committee at the start of 2006. |
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Treasurer
Gavin Ellwood
gavin@ellwoodandatfield.com
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Gavin Ellwood is Director of Ellwood & Atfield, leading recruitment company for public affairs, government relations and communications in a political and regulatory context. He has nearly 15 years search and selection experience and has been a member of the Government Affairs Group since 2001. Gavin has a wealth of experience working for a large and diverse group of organisations in the private, public and voluntary sectors to advise and assist in the hiring of government relations expertise. He is also on the editorial advisory board of PublicAffairsWorld.com. |
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Secretary
George Crozier
crozierg@yahoo.co.uk
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George is External Relations Manager for the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), managing public affairs and media relations. Previously he worked as Manager of the Liberal Democrats' Political Intelligence and Communications Section, and before that as Senior Political Adviser to the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party, and lead speechwriter to the Rt. Hon. Paddy Ashdown, during his time as party leader. He is also a professional speechwriting trainer. He has been a member of the GAG Committee since 2003. |
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Membership Secretary
Simon Astley
Simon.Astley@baesystems.com
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Simon is Director of Parliamentary Relations for BAE Systems and is responsible for the company’s UK public affairs activity. Over the last 16 years Simon has worked in aircraft communications at BAE Systems, in Public Affairs for the construction industry and in local and national politics. He has been a member of the CIPR and GAG since 1998. |
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Danielle Yong
DYong@rics.org
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Danielle is Public Affairs Manager at RICS (the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) and manages the organisation’s Westminster influencing programme. Prior to this she was Public Affairs Officer at RICS, joining after a stint at Dods Parliamentary Communications where she worked as a consultant on monitoring. |
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James Tyrrell
james@insightpa.com
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James has nearly a decade of experience in consultancy and in-house roles, and has advised some of the UK's largest companies and organisations. He co-founded Insight Public Affairs in early 2006, and has spearheaded projects in the Health, Pharmaceuticals, Education and Social Enterprise sectors. Previously James was responsible for Public Affairs at the British Retail Consortium, where he grew his particular knowledge of London Governance running the London Retail Consortium. He joined the GAG Executive Committee in 2010. |
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Lionel Zetter FCIPR
lionel.zetter@o2email.co.uk
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Lionel is a former President of the CIPR and a former chairman of GAG.
He is currently an independent public affairs consultant, a director of ComRes, a director of the Enterprise Forum and a Vice-President of Publicaffairsasia.
He is author of 'The Political Campaigning Handbook' and ‘Lobbying - the art of political persuasion'.
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Mike Bryan
m@brycom.net
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Mike is Director of brycom, a communications strategy and change management consultancy. He has 20 years’ experience in communications, change management, tutoring and consultancy. His public affairs experience spans local, national and international environments, and his current activities include advising political, commercial, charity and other not-for-profit organisations. Mike joined the CIPR Professional Practices Committee and the GAG Executive Committee in 2010. |
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Simon McVicker
simon.mcvicker@pcg.org.uk
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Simon has been Head of Public Affairs at the PCG, the voice of freelancing, since January 2009. Before that he headed up public affairs at the Manufacturing Technologies Association and previous to that he was Public Affairs Manager at The Independent Schools Information Service.
Simon worked for two years in the 1980s as research assistant to Christopher Chope MP and then worked at Conservative Central Office, running the Conservative Collegiate Forum in its early years. He was a team leader in John Major’s Campaign Team at the 1992 General Election. He was also a Councillor in the London Borough of Ealing from 1990 to 1994 and on the Conservative Candidates' list from 1990 to 1995. |