DEMOS

Nick joined the Department for Culture Media and Sport on September 1st 2003 as a Special Adviser to the Secretary of State, the Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP.  He resigned on April 11th 2005 to work on the Labour Party’s general election campaign and then re-joined the Department on May 9th 2005.

He originally joined DCMS from the think tank Policy Network, where he worked for Peter Mandelson and was Director of the 2003 Progressive Governance Conference, a gathering of centre-left academics and politicians from 35 countries which was hosted by Prime Minister Tony Blair in July that year.  Twelve serving Heads of State and Government attended, along with former US President Bill Clinton and various European Commissioners.

Prior to joining Policy Network, Nick was a Director and Head of Public Affairs at Burson-Marsteller London, where he specialised in advising companies, NGOs and charities on Corporate Social Responsibility for five years.  He also worked in Burson-Marsteller’s Washington office.

Nick is a former Research Assistant to Paul Boateng and has a bachelor’s degree in law from Oxford and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard.

He is an Associate of the think tank Demos and the Chairman of the Oxford-Kilburn Youth Club on the South Kilburn Estate.