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JONATHAN SAYEED, CHAIRMAN
Jonathan Sayeed was a
Member of Parliament for seventeen years - firstly
for Bristol East from 1983 to 1992 and secondly for
Mid-Bedfordshire from 1997 until 2005.
He was Parliamentary
Private Secretary in the Northern Ireland Department
and has served on the Defence, Environment and
Broadcasting Select Committees. Jonathan had also
been Shadow Minister for the Environment
and, until his retirement, was a member of the
Speaker's Panel of Chairmen for Standing Committees
and Westminster Hall.
Jonathan is a former
Chairman of the Parliamentary Shipping and
Ship-Building Committee and Deputy Chairman of the
All-Party Maritime Group. He was also one of the
founder members of the Parliamentary Choir and
served as its Chairman for two years.
Jonathan has
extensive business experience gained in a wide
variety of fields but, thanks to part of his career
being spent in the Royal Navy, he has retained a
life-long love of the sea.
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ANNA WOLFFE, DIRECTOR Anna graduated from
Leeds University with a BA(Hons) in Politics and
Parliamentary Studies and has worked in the US House
of Representatives and within the House of Commons,
running a Member of Parliament's office for eight
years.
Previously, Anna
carried out research on behalf of MP's from the
Labour and Conservative Parties and worked for a
Public Affairs agency, assisting a number of
clients. She planned and executed a number of
General Election Campaigns and assisted with a
campaign for an independent local councillor, who
won the seat and ousted the Leader of the Council.
Anna has a thorough
knowledge of the British political system from her
total immersion in the political scene for more than
a decade.
She also works for
the Hughes Syndrome Foundation and the Teenage
Cancer Trust on a voluntary basis.
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JAMES PAWSEY
James Pawsey was Member
of Parliament for Rugby and Kenilworth for eighteen
years. During that time, he served in three
Government Departments: Education, Health & Social
Security, and Northern Ireland. In addition, he was
Chairman of both the Parliamentary Commissioner's
Select Committee and the Parliamentary Party's
Education Committee.
James was also a
member of the influential '1922' executive in the
House of Commons. His practical, direct, and
personal Parliamentary experience combined with an
extensive business background makes him an effective
advocate for a wide range of industrial sectors and
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Alun Rees, ACCOUNT
MANAGER
Alun graduated from
the University of Cambridge with Honours in Social and
Political Sciences. He specialised in politics in
his second and third years, where his main interests
lay in international political economy and modern
political theory. Alun has experience in both
government and the media, having worked for a
parliamentary pressure group and the BBC East
Midlands current affairs production team.
Having completed his
TEFL qualification, Alun taught English in Ghana for
four months during his gap year. At Cambridge he was
President of the Downing College Sports Society, JCR
Freshers' Officer and wrote sports reports for the
Varsity newspaper. As a member of the University
Hockey Club, Alun achieved a double blue and coached
the ladies 2nd and 3rd teams.
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Andrew Clarke, ACCOUNT MANAGER
Andrew graduated from the University of
Cambridge with a BA in History. After a year and
a half as an assistant editor on
The Statesman’s
Yearbook for Palgrave Macmillan, he
took an MA in Political Science at the
University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His
thesis compared British and Indian foreign
policies, with particular reference to the human
rights crisis in Nepal.
He subsequently worked as a freelance
researcher, including two projects for the
Overseas Development Institute (ODI). The first
was an aid coordination exercise for the Uganda
office of the Department for International
Development (DFID), on behalf of the Local
Development Partners Group. This involved
mapping all official development assistance onto
the Ugandan budget and Uganda’s poverty
reduction strategy paper. The second project,
also for DFID, produced a methodological tool
for measuring the impact of trade, investment,
migration and other external flows on a
developing country.
Andrew has travelled widely, particularly in
Europe and North America. A four-month stay in
India included voluntary work for an educational
facility in Ladakh. Recent trips include a
walking holiday in Greenland and a field trip to
Uganda.
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Cameron Penny,
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
Cameron graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA in Modern History. His post-university career has seen him work in Parliament and for a high-profile IT firm where he assisted the Director of Corporate Communications in managing a challenging public affairs campaign.
A 'citizen of the world' Cameron has travelled extensively, including a short stint teaching in Changsha, PRC, and lived on 5 continents. At university he was Returning Officer for the Oxford Union and ran in local elections for Oxford City Council; nascent political stirrings that have left him with a passion for politics.
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Ferelith Gaze,
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
Ferelith graduated from the University of Warwick with a First in History. Specialising in early modern Europe, she spent three months living in Venice, supposedly to study the Renaissance and hopefully to learn some Italian.
While working as an information designer for a website and software development company, she completed a Master’s in Global Politics, looking at global governance, international political economy and globalisation. Focusing on Afghanistan between 1992 and 2001, her dissertation examined the possibilities of civil liberties in a failed state: without a state, are freedoms total because they cannot be interfered with, or are they absent because they cannot be protected?
She is a member of a creative team, supporting new artists in promoting their work, when not travelling, running, eating or sleeping.
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