Experience

Government Office for Science

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Health, International and Life Sciences team leader

  • Apr 2022 - Present

• Head of Covid-19 Science Advice Team

  • Jul 2021 - Apr 2022

  Westminster

• Head of International Resilience

  • Oct 2017 - Jul 2021

  Westminster

• Project leader

  • Aug 2015 - Oct 2017

  Westminster Horizon scanning, analysis and policy development for emerging technologies Communications planning, design and delivery Training on all forms of writing



Mind in Haringey

• United Kingdom
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Trustee

  • 2014 - 2017



Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Speechwriter to Secretary of State

  • Jan 2008 - Aug 2015

  Speechwriter (and ghostwriter) for Vince Cable Previously speechwriter for David Willetts, Lord Drayson, John Denham, David Lammy, others Provide in-house training courses on speechwriting, general writing (Department previously Innovation, Universities and Skills)



HSBC

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Speechwriter

  • 2007 - 2007

  Speechwriter to Stephen Green, Chairman, and other senior executives



Department for Education

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Speechwriter

  • 2006 - 2007

  Speechwriter to Lord Adonis



UK Home Office

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Editor

  • 2005 - 2006

  Editor of Home Office magazine



Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Editor

  • 2004 - 2005

  Editor of DWP magazine Internal comms writer/editor



Durham University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer in US history

  • 2003 - 2004

  Specialist in African American history, US South, race relations, US cultural history Author of The Pussycat of Prizefighting: Tiger Flowers and the Politics of Black Celebrity (2004). See http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/pussycat_of_prizefighting



Newcastle University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer in US history

  • 2000 - 2003

  Specialist in African American history, US South, race relations, US cultural history Degree programme director, Politics and History Articles for Journal of American Studies, Historical Journal, Journal of Sport History. Reviewer for History, Patterns of Prejudice, Journal of American Studies, Continuity and Change, Journal of African American History, American 19th Century History. Editorial board member, Patterns of Prejudice.



Lyons Tetley

• Tea taster

  • 1993 - 1994