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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 Parliament Choir and served as its Chairman for two years.

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 has successfully established and provided the secretariat for a number of All-Party Parliamentary Groups; built informed relationships between clients and key decisions-makers in the Commons and the Lords and provided strategic advice to build campaigns over many parliamentary sessions. In addition, Anna has specialised in event organisation, both within the Palace of Westminster and across the UK with political guest speakers.

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, particularly free trade theory and the politics of energy. Alun has previous experience in both Parliament and the media, having worked for a parliamentary pressure group and on regional BBC current affairs programming.

Alun manages accounts spanning a variety of industry sectors including technology, communications, gambling, healthcare, media and entertainment. In addition to Government and Parliament, he has extensive experience in dealing with non-departmental public bodies, and the regulations that frame their decision-making. Areas of current legislative focus include the Digital Economy Act 2010, potential renewal of the Communications Act 2003 and issues arising from the implementation of the Gambling Act 2005.

Alun is a keen sportsman and was a member of the University Hockey Club throughout his time at Cambridge, during which he achieved two full-blues. He has kept up his interest and now captains a side in London. 

Andrew Clarke, Public Affairs Manager

Andrew graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA(Hons) 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.

His focus at Ranelagh has been on construction and related manufacturing sectors and on education. Core legislative and regulatory areas include environmental and renewable energy policies, health & safety, manufacturing standards and school learning environments. Andrew also has extensive experience of lobbying the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales and of European Parliament procedure.

Cameron Penny, Public Affairs 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.

Ferelith graduated from the University of Warwick with a First in History. Specialising in early modern Europe, she spent three months living in Venice, 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 an MSc 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.

At Ranelagh, Ferelith has focused on education and skills policy, pharmaceutical regulation, business reform and gambling legislation. She has particular experience in drafting speeches, consultation responses, position papers and briefing notes. 

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