Other activities
Consulting/management workshops. Clients in financial, marketing, retail, and professional services, central government, consumer goods, telecoms, and media.
Applied research/consulting on media and advertising for a variety of broadcasting and related companies, regulators, etc.
Expert witness for commercial/competition/tax cases in Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Paris, and Washington. Clients mostly consumer product companies but also tax authorities and some other corporate clients.
Selected pro bono activities
Consumers’ Association (Which?) Council, 1995-2000, 2006- (Deputy Chairman 1998-2000); Oftel Consumer Panel, 1999-2000; Society for the Advancement of Management Studies, 2000-03; judge, IPA Advertising Effectiveness Awards (1992, 2000) and Marketing Society Excellence Awards (2005-07); chaired Which?/ISBA task force on commercial activities in schools, 2000-01; member of the Hansard Society (Puttnam) commission on Parliament and the public, 2004-05; various advisory boards.
Other outside activities
Founding investor and advisory board member, Verve (online brand communities), 5.09-.
Member of academic panel on the impact of the commercial world on childhood, Department for Children, Schools and Families (3.08-3.09).
Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute, a UK government virtual academy on public service management (since 11.05). Member of the team commissioned by the UK Civil Service Steering Board to evaluate departmental Capability Reviews (4.07-11.07).
Independent report for the BBC Board of Governors on public responses to the BBC’s licence fee bid (4.06).
Independent review for Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, of the BBC’s digital television services (10.04).
Occasional columnist, FT Creative Business, 2001-03 (13 columns).
Founding investor and advisory board member, The Mobile Channel/Research Now (permission-based mobile marketing and online field research) 2000-04. IPO 2005.
Marketing audit for UK Government’s National Audit Office of the regulator’s decision to award the National Lottery to Camelot (3.95).
Fellow and member of the President’s Committee, The Marketing Society.
Listed in Who’s Who.