Iain is an expert in integrated communications, global political risk and public policy. He has over 30 years' experience in communications, initially as a business journalist and then as a founding shareholder at Incisive Media. He has also worked for a range of politicians, including Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP on his leadership bids. Iain is co-founder and Executive Chairman at H/Advisors Cicero and focuses on public policy and corporate communications strategy supporting many global FTSE and Fortune 500 blue chip organisations. He provides CEO and Board level counsel. He is a Non Executive Director of Innovate Finance – the member body for the global fintech sector. He is a non-executive member on the Court of the University of St Andrews. He chairs the Development Committee of Robert Gordon's College. He is one of the Financial Times Global 100 LGBTQ Executives and one of the Financial Times Allies of Women in Business. Iain is immensely proud to be a Trustee of award-winning charity GiveOUT. He regularly contributes to national and international print and broadcast media including Sky News and BBC. Iain is a former Chairman of the Association of Professional Political Consultants and the CIPR Public Affairs group. He is a Fellow of both the CIPR and the PRCA and is a Freeman of the City of London. He was ranked in the top quartile of the Total Politics Top 100 Lobbyists and appears in the PR Week Power Book. CityAM also includes him in the list of “The City’s most influential financial PRs” voted by broadcast and national business editors. He features in the Square Mile “Power 100” list. He serves on the International Advisory Board of the Institute of Business Ethics and served on the Advisory Board of the Queen Elizabeth II Garden in New York from 2012 until 2016. He is a tennis geek, an Arsenal season ticket holder and an opera nut.
Executive Chairman
Mark is an Executive Director at H/Advisors Cicero where he oversees the firm’s campaigns and research business. He has delivered campaigns in over 50 countries worldwide with clients including Aegon, Accenture, Novartis, Canada Pension Plan, World Gold Council, Legal & General, BlackRock, Columbia Threadneedle, HSBC, and AXA. The team focus on cross-cutting business themes including technology, sustainability, demographics, trade, and political risk.
CEO
Judith is the Chief Operating Office of H/Advisors Cicero. Additionally, she oversees the political monitoring team and is in charge of the development and maintenance of Cicero Pulse, our proprietary online portal. She developed the service from its UK and EU financial services roots to cover multiple jurisdiction and sectors serving clients across the globe during the past decade. Previously, Judith was a researcher focusing on international pensions systems with H/Advisors Cicero and she worked for the European Commission Delegation in Beijing, China. Judith is a graduate of Maastricht University (BA European Studies), Peking University and the London School of Economics (Double MSc International Affairs), Bayes Business School (formerly Cass; MSc Global Finance) and a native German speaker.
Chief Operating Officer
Helena leads H/Advisors Cicero’s European team and is a member of the Executive team. She has twenty years' experience working on Government and EU policy issues - financial services, digital, environmental, energy and trade. Before joining H/Advisors Cicero, Helena was a Political Functionnaire on the European Parliament Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee.
Managing Director -
EU Public Affairs
Parisa is currently Director of Talent at H/Advisors Cicero. Having joined in 2016, she is responsible for providing strategic business partnering HR advice to H/Advisors Cicero's Executive Committee and provides a supportive role to our talented employees. She is responsible for all aspects of human resource management at H/Advisors Cicero including; internal communications, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, benefits and reward, training and development and recruitment of our top talented teams.
Director of Talent
Andrew heads the H/Advisors Cicero research team, creating insights for a wide range of financial services and legal sector clients across thought leadership and marcomms campaigns, branding, new product development, proposition testing and market insight projects.
Chief Creative Officer
Tom is Head of H/Advisors Cicero’s UK public affairs practice and is a member of the Executive team. He works with H/Advisors Cicero’s clients to deliver strategies that enhance brand, reputation and political...
Managing Director -
UK Public Affairs
John is a Managing Director in the UK Public Affairs team at H/Advisors Cicero. Bringing 15 years' experience, he specialises in advising blue-chip companies in complex and highly-regulated markets. He also leads H/Advisors Cicero's political risk analysis, writing and speaking regularly on the intersection of politics and markets. John joined as a graduate in 2006. He headed Cicero’s office Washington D.C. from 2010-2013, working on US Wall Street reform and a global campaign to introduce a standard to help eliminate conflict gold from the supply chain. After returning to London, John joined the board and was part of the management team that built Cicero into the U.K's top ranked public affairs team by revenue (PR Week figures) and then to successful sale to global communications giant Havas in 2020. In a voluntary capacity he is Vice President of Churches Mutual, which is one of the nation’s most significant ecumenical institutions and is a member of the Company of Communicators, the City livery company for communications professionals. He holds a BSc in Government from LSE and an MSc from the UCL School of Public Policy.
Managing Director
Rt Hon Sir David Lidington works as Strategic Counsel within H/Advisors Cicero’s public affairs team. Lidington was first elected as a Member of Parliament for Aylesbury in 1992. He served the Conservative Party front bench for more than 20 years, including as Minister for European Affairs, Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, where he acted as Deputy to the Prime Minister. He stood down from government in July 2019 and did not stand as an MP at the 2019 General Election.
Strategic Counsel
Aideen is a communications specialist with experience in corporate, commercial and government communications management. With a B.A in European Studies and M.A in Political Communications, she has over eigh
Ireland Director
Robert heads up Business Development within H/Advisors Cicero’s research and campaigns team, supporting practitioners across client acquisition and expansion, including development of H/Advisors Cicero’s integrated corporate campaigns offering.
Chief Strategy Officer
Prior to joining H/Advisors Cicero, Tom worked for Lloyd’s of London where he lobbied for legislative and regulatory developments in international insurance markets. At H/Advisors Cicero, he works on client...
Director - Public Affairs
Adam is the Managing Director, Communications in H/Advisors Cicero's corporate communications team. With almost a decade's experience, Adam's role is supporting clients to turn their ideas, products and messaging into coverage across national, broadcast, regional and trade media. Adam works with clients including LINK, Laybuy, ThinCats and Coriolis Technologies. Adam also led the influential Access to Cash Review that secured more than 2,500 pieces of coverage since its publication. Adam regularly chairs panel events with some of the UK's influential business and personal finance journalists.
Managing Director, Communications
Sonia is an Associate Director at H/Advisors Cicero, having previously been a Special Adviser to the former Chancellor, Sajid Javid MP, and his predecessor, Philip Hammond. She served as a Campaign...
Associate Director
Lizzy is an Associate Director on H/Advisors Cicero's UK Public Affairs team, working predominantly with financial services clients. She has widespread agency experience, assisting several FTSE250 clients on legislative affairs, financial services policy and consumer policy. Lizzy also has extensive experience in the planning and development sector, and prior to joining H/Advisors Cicero, worked on large-scale planning projects across the UK whilst circumnavigating local politics. Lizzy is active in the Liberal Democrats and worked in Westminster for two MPs during the Coalition Government.
Associate Director
Alice Perry is an Associate Director at H/Advisors Cicero. Alice was a Labour Councillor for 11 years and represented Local Government on Labour’s National Executive Committee, chairing the NEC in 2021-2022.
Associate Director
Anusha is the Finance Director at H/Advisors Cicero, where she heads the group’s finance department. She joined in 2011 and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, with over...
Finance Director
Susan brings 16 years' experience working as a journalist in national media in Ireland to her role as Communications Consultant with H/Advisors Cicero. She uses her experience in newsrooms, her understanding of Ireland’s news cycle and media landscape to brief clients on who and what they need to know.
Communications Consultant
Simon is Head of Public Affairs at H/Advisors Cicero. He joined the company in October 2010 and has worked a wide range of high profile accounts in that time, with particular specialisms in financial services and health...
Head of UK Public Affairs
Chris joined H/Advisors Cicero from BBC Radio 4 News where he worked as a reporter and editor on its flagship World at One and PM programmes. During that time he spent secondments in Brussels and Westminster covering the Brexit process, and most recently has played a senior role covering the COVID pandemic.
Head of Political Communications
Kuba, Director of European Communications at H/Advisors Cicero, is an experienced public relations professional with a background in financial services. He has provided expert and timely advice on media relations, thought leadership and reactive communications during the entire lifecycle of companies, has previously contributed articles to publications in English and Polish and also speaks German and Russian. Stawiski works closely with H/Advisors Cicero’s international offices, bringing an awareness of the European and international media landscape, as well as linguistic abilities, to his clients. He collaborates closely with the public affairs teams at Cicero and has a wealth of political expertise, which helps inform client campaigns. His current clients include FinTech firms, global organisations and pensions and investment membership associations.
Director of European Communications
Mairi is an Account Director in the H/Advisors Cicero Public Affairs team, working with FTSE listed financial services and blue chip companies to deliver...
Account Director
Ben is a Research Director in H/Advisors Cicero's expanding research and campaigns practice. Ben has a depth of experience working on large scale, multi-country cam- paigns most notably in the pensions and savings...
Account Director
Sarah is an experienced researcher, managing projects across H/Advisors Cicero's research clients in the financial services, infrastructure and energy space, including on behalf of Accenture, Legal & General, Kennedys Law
Account Director
Alexandros joined H/Advisors Cicero in 2019 as part of the Brussels Public Affairs team. He advises major clients in financial services, energy, and inno- vation. His work ranges from risk analysis on European political and regulatory developments to the preparation and implementation of legislative engagement plans. Alexandros’ strong background in public affairs has also been cultivated via the organisation of a series of high-level politics and policy conferences. Alexandros holds both an undergraduate and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. The former in law and the latter in European political economy. He is a Greek national and is a native speaker in both English and Greek.
Account Director
Sophie has around seven years experience working on transport, sustainability, trade, and technology. Her focal point in recent years has been digital and consumer policy. Prior to joining H/Advisors Cicero, Sophie advised clients on regulatory questions, reputation and visibility building, and has run pan-European campaigns...
Account Director
Alice is an Account Director at H/Advisors Cicero working across a variety of clients in the financial services and technology sectors...
Account Director
Tom joined H/Advisors Cicero in February 2021. Most of his two-decade career in London and New York has been spent in journalism covering business, enter- tainment and the business
Senior Account Manager
Matthew joined H/Advisors Cicero in May 2022 as part of the UK Public Affairs team. He was Director at the Initiative for Free Trade, working on trade policy and sitting...
Senior Account Manager
Tom joined H/Advisors Cicero in 2021, having spent several years working in prominent public sector institutions, including almost four years at the Bank of England. During his time at the Bank, Tom worked closely with senior officials – preparing PRA executives for select committee appearances and providing strategic policy and political advice, most notably during the passage of the Financial Services Act through Parliament, giving the PRA the first tranche of post-Brexit financial regulatory powers to implement Basel III rules. Tom previously worked in Parliament as a researcher and advisor to a Member of Parliament, where he worked with a range of parliamentarians as well as the relevant trade body to set up an all-party parliamentary group on FinTech.
Senior Account Manager
Dan joined H/Advisors Cicero in March 2019 and now leads much of our Labour analysis having previously worked with several Labour politicians in the East of England. His background is in political communications and election campaigns and he holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from UCL. Dan works with clients across a number of sectors, including financial services, energy and infrastructure.
Senior Account Manager
Alexandra is Cicero Pulse’s Team Manager having joined the business in 2015. She oversees the overall management of the team and runs the team’s global financial services work on various accounts. She has extensive experience delivering on complicated briefs/proposals, and consultation responses across challenging jurisdictions. She is also the lead on key accounts in several sectors such as financial regulation, payments, sustainable finance, Fintech, energy and transport. Alexandra is a graduate of CCCU University (BA International Relations and French) and UCL (MSc European Public Policy).
Team Manager
John supports H/Advisors Cicero’s work on regulatory affairs, media and stakeholder outreach for a range of clients in the financial services, digital and energy sectors. Before joining H/Advisors Cicero, John...
Account Manager
Max joined H/Advisors Cicero in October 2022. He previously worked in the European Parliament as an Accredited Parliamentary Assistant, specialising in digital policy and industrial policy, and also worked as a freelance consultant...
Account Manager
Miglena joined H/Advisors Cicero in July 2021 as Digital Account Manager. She has over 5 years of experience in the design industry, working with a wide variety of clients across the UK. Miglena’s wide-ranging interest in media, art, creativity and story-telling has led her to produce high-profile work in a variety of categories including Advertising, Branding, Digital Media, Video/Animation, Illustrations and UX/UI design.
Digital Account Manager
Matt is an Account Manager at H/Advisors Cicero, working across a number of clients in the financial services, technology and defence sectors. Previously, Matt worked as a Researcher to the Secretary of State for...
Account Manager
James joined H/Advisors Cicero in 2021, working across a number of technology and financial services clients. He previously worked in-house for an international industrial and energy group, responsible for the UK and Brussels.
Account Manager
Lily is an Account Manager. She is a graduate of the University of Manchester in Modern History and Politics, where she was the Deputy News Editor for the UK’s largest student newspaper and made appearances on...
Account Manager
As an Account Manager in the H/Advisors Cicero corporate communications team, Ed works across a variety of financial services PR briefs. In particular, he focuses on the alternative finance...
Account Manager
Gian Marco is an Account Manager at H/Advisors Cicero within the Corporate Communications practice where he works with clients across the financial services, tech- nology, and industrial sectors. Previously, he worked at a New York-based financial and professional services specialist communications agency. Gian Marco holds a B.A. in Politics from New York University. He is fluent in English and Portuguese, as well as proficient in French and Spanish.
Account Manager
Samia previously worked for Gillian Keegan MP, Minister of State for Care and Mental Health and for an education charity. She holds a MA in Public Policy from King’s College, London and a BA in Politics from the University of Leicester. While studying for her master’s degree, she interned for a Labour MP.
Senior Account Executive
Sophie joined H/Advisors Cicero in October 2020 as part of the UK Public Affairs team, having graduated from UCL with a degree in English earlier in the year. She previously worked as an intern at a corporate and public affairs...
Senior Account Executive
Lili joined the Research team in July 2021. She holds an undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology and Chinese from SOAS University of London. Prior to joining H/Advisors Cicero, Lili has completed internships with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Hungarian think tank Political Capital, and Transparency International.
Senior Account Executive
Carolina is a Research Executive at H/Advisors Cicero, working with clients from a variety of sectors, including financial services and pharmaceuticals. Carolina joined H/Advisors Cicero in July 2021 after graduating from the University of Manchester with a degree in Politics and Sociology. Carolina previously worked as an intern at a brand valuation consultancy in London and, during her time at university, co-founded a magazine for students which distributed over 2000 copies across Manchester.
Senior Account Executive
Ella is a Senior Account Executive at H/Advisors Cicero, with experience engaging with a range of companies across the financial services sector, operating across alternative finance, pensions and fintech. Prior to joining H/Advisors Cicero, she interned at a London-based communications agency. Ella also holds a B.A in Anthropology from the University of Bristol.
Senior Account Executive
Hannah is a Senior Account Executive at H/Advisors Cicero, with experience across a range of financial services companies. She provides strategic counsel...
Senior Account Executive
Dan joined H/Advisors Cicero in March 2021 as part of the UK Public Affairs team, having graduated from the University of Leicester with a degree in BA Politics and International Relations in 2020. He previously worked in...
Senior Account Executive
Claudia joined H/Advisors Cicero in July 2021 as an Account Executive in the UK Public Affairs team. Prior to this, she had worked as a policy intern at a grassroots parliamentary research organisation. She holds a BA in Politics from Durham University and is currently studying for an MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS, University of London. Since joining H/Advisors Cicero, Claudia has worked with clients across a number of sectors, including financial services, trade and insurance.
Senior Account Executive
Jasmin is an Account Executive at H/Advisors Cicero within the Corporate communications team. Previously, she supported the marketing team at a large retail firm in South Africa. During her time at H/Advisors Cicero, she has worked on accounts spanning technology, education, and financial services.
Account Executive
Josh is an Account Executive within H/Advisors Cicero's Corporate Communications team. He is a graduate of the University of Birmingham...
Account Executive
Isabelle joined the H/Advisors Cicero team in March 2022. She graduated in 2021 with a BA in Politics and International Relations from the University of Kent and spent a year studying at Virginia Tech...
Account Executive
Following a traineeship at Europol, Caterina joined H/Advisors Cicero in February 2022 to further develop her expertise in EU public affairs. Her interests include energy, environment...
Account Executive
Horatiu joined H/Advisors Cicero's EU Public Affairs team in July 2022, after a first experience in Research and Innovation Management. He holds a BA in Law and Political Science and a MA in European Affairs from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris...
Account Executive
Following his graduation from Durham University with a degree in Politics, Jamie joined H/Advisors Cicero as an Account Executive in the Public Affairs team. He has experience in policy, communications and public affairs...
Account Executive
Saif graduated from the University of York with a BA in Politics and International Relations. He has 6 months’ worth of policy and public affairs experience having completed...
Account Executive
Roddy joined H/Advisors Cicero in August 2022 as an Account Executive in our Public Affairs team. He holds an undergraduate degree in International Relations & Politics from...
Account Executive
Charlie graduated from the University of Nottingham, where he studied French, Spanish and politics, and completed a semester abroad in Barcelona...
Account Executive
Matei joined H/Advisors Cicero in August 2022 as a Digital Account Executive. He has over 3 years of experience in the design industry through successful projects across the UK and Romania...
Digital Account Executive
Amy joined the H/Advisors Cicero Pulse team in January 2021. She previously orga- nised political campaigns, working both on a Con- gressional race in New York and for the Liberal Demo- crats here in the UK. She graduated in Philosophy & Politics...
Associate
Steven joined the H/Advisors Cicero Pulse team in November 2021. He holds an MSc in European and International Public Policy from the London School of Economics and an LLM in European Law from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
Associate
Amran joined the H/Advisors Cicero Pulse team as an Associate in June 2022. He successively worked at the US Congress, the US Embassy in Paris and, lately, at the EU Delegation to the US...
Associate
Shristi joined as part of the H/Advisors Cicero Pulse team, having graduated from LSE with a degree in Politics and Economics. She previously worked as an intern at a stakeholder engagement consultancy in London,..
Associate
Alessandro joined H/Advisors Cicero Pulse Team as an Associate in August 2022 where he works on the UK and EU parliamentary arenas in the field of financial services. Previously, Alessandro worked in Brussels for a human rights NGO...
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