Phil Briscoe -Associate Director of Property and Planning

Phil has been working in political communications and campaigning for more than 15 years. He is also a councillor.

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Greg Rosen - Director of Public Affairs

Until recently, Greg was the Head of Media Strategy at the London Development Agency where he led on Olympic media during and after the bid.

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Charlotte Barraclough - Associate Director of Public Relations

Charlotte has over 12 years experience in political communications, media and public affairs. Most recently she has been Head of Communications at the Swiss Embassy in London where she was in charge of wide-ranging communications activities covering politics, culture, education, business and media training.

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Mary Derrane - Associate

Mary has some 20 years experience of public affairs, media and internal communications. For 15 years she worked for Pfizer Ltd as communications manager (in which role she edited the house magazine) and media manager.

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David Brown - Associate

David has spent 20 years working in policy advice and communications in the UK and European Union. He has extensive experience and expertise, particularly in planning and the environmental and landscaping areas. Recent clients include major Trade Associations, Government Departments and Agencies, Utility Companies, Co-operatives and individual businesses.

Tamsin James - Account Executive

Tamsin joined Bellenden Public Affairs from the New Politics Network, a think-tank focused on institutional political regeneration. She has previously worked on the Today Programme at BBC Radio 4. She holds a First-Class Honours degree in History from the University of London and MPhil from University of Cambridge.

Daniel Cremin - Account Executive

Daniel has a background in Labour Party politics, and has served on the National Executive Committee of Labour Students. He was a campaign organizer in the North-West during the 2005 general election and graduated from Lancaster University with a first class degree in history and politics. He is a former chair of the University Labour Club and President of the Politics Society.

For several years he lived in Qatar and his policy interests include, welfare reform policy, consumer rights, new skills and lifelong learning strategies and regional economic development and regeneration.

Sophie Fernandes - Account Executive

Sophie joined Bellenden Public Affairs after a year in New York working for a head hunting firm. A former writer for Conservative Future, she also contributes to Tory Radio. She holds a First-Class Honours degree in American Studies and an MA from the University of Leeds in International Political Economy. Whilst in America she was able to pursue her interest in US politics and participated in seminars on US foreign policy at West Point Military Academy and the Institute of Humane Studies. A former civilian Instructor at 1083 Squadron Air Training Corps, she was also a Millennium Volunteer.

Alex Sewell - Account Executive

Alex has experience working for the Fabian Society and in the Parliamentary Office
of his local MP. He joined Bellenden Public Affairs in January 2008. Active in the Labour Party he was also co-founder and vice-president of the Reading University Politics Society. He graduated from the University of Reading in July 2007 and
holds an honours degree in Politics and International Relations.

Other associates working with Bellenden Public Affairs

Mike Tate - Associate – Copywriter

Mike has had lengthy and successful careers in both financial journalism and in public relations. He spent more than 20 years in Fleet Street, writing for The Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Express and the Times, where he was City Editor in the early 90s. In 1996 he moved into public relations as a director of Ludgate Communications, and in January 2001 was appointed Director of Corporate Communications by one of his clients, Jarvis plc.

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Ben Jeffreys (Associate North-West)

Ben Jeffreys is an Associate Consultant specialising in Politics and Education. A fully qualified and experienced school teacher, Ben has a strong understanding of education in schools, colleges and universities.

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Alan Laing - Associate

Working with Bellenden on a number of campaigns, Alan is also the Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods in the London Borough of Hackney, prior to which he headed up the public affairs work for Bloomberg in their European Headquarters in London.

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