Alicia Kearns

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Alicia Kearns is the MP for Rutland having been elected at the General Election in December 2019.

LinkedIn profile after the election, 16 March 2020
LinkedIn profile during the election campaign, 3 December 2019
LinkedIn profile May 2018

Background

Alicia Kearns grew up in Cambridgeshire, and attended the comprehensive school, Impington Village College. During her teenage years, she was a member of the UK Youth Parliament and an activist for Amnesty International. Her parents were “both left-wing and voted Labour”. She attended Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 2009 with a Master of Arts (MA) Social and Political Sciences During university, she participated in student theatre productions. She received mentoring from the Diana Awards and participated in the United Kingdom Youth Parliament (January 2002 - January 2005).

Kearns was a school governor in London and actively sought primary school specific PREVENT training and was invited to a primary school Prevent training session. She married Jon Collins on August 4th 2017 and they subsequently honeymooned in Zambia, Zimbabwe , Kenya and South Africa . They have a son and live in Langham, a village in Rutland.

Career

After graduating Kearns began her career at the public relations agency Munro & Forster Communications (October 2009 - August 2010) . She worked for PRCA Frontline (May 2010 - September 2012) , promoting the PRCA’s Unmissable Summer Boat Party. Kearns later went on to become a consultant at Grayling Communications (September 2010 - October 2012). Kearns joined the UK Ministry of Justice in late 2012 (October 2012 - October 2013) , starting out as Press Secretary to the Victims Minister at the Ministry of Justice. She then moved to the Ministry of Defence (November 2013 - September 2014) , where she helped organise the MoD’s contribution to the Scottish independence referendum in 2014. She went on to work as Press Secretary to the Secretary of State for Defence during the 2014 NATO Summit in Newport, Wales.

In September 2014 she was approached by the Foreign Office to lead the Government’s communication campaigns on Syria and Iraq , as well as advising more than 70 international Governments on counter-terrorism. Whilst at the FCO she made several trips abroad. In 2015 she visited Ukraine to support the Ukrainian Government , claiming to have stood behind Ukrainian President Poroshenko at the NATO Summit in 2014 as he discussed the Minsk Protocol. On 2 July 2015 she was in Baghdad, Iraq. In 2016 she was in Erbil, Iraq stating “I stand with our Kurdish allies.” whilst also travelling to the UN for the Geneva peace talks regarding the conflict in Syria. After leaving the FCO she spent three months on the Greek island of Lesbos “pulling refugees out the water”. Kearns stated “I don’t really care what your views are on migration or refugees, you don’t let people drown, it’s that simple.”

Global Influence

Kearns became the client services director for the strategic communications consultancy Global Influence on 15 August 2016. A Global Influence press briefing of the time stated:

Global Influence is focused specifically on government and defence influence solutions, with a particular focus on counter-terrorism, counter violent extremism, stabilisation and political campaigning.

In her new role, Kearns will lead strategic comms campaigns and influence solutions for several international clients, with activity including initial target audience analysis, through strategy, cross-platform activation and effects-based measurement.

Kearns added: "Global Influence uses ground-breaking applied psychology to decode target audiences. Their rigorous methodology is also underpinned by a genuine desire to deliver meaningful behaviour change to support and protect communities at home and abroad. I’m proud to be part of a company driven by the need to make a difference." Whilst working for Global Influence Kearns was involved in the promotion of a video for FATE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPhFHw3yPX0 and attended her first Conservative Party Conference in October 2016. She left Global Influence in October 2017. Between leaving Global Influence and becoming a Conservative MP in December 2019 Kearns gave numerous talks on counter extremism, hybrid warfare and information warfare.


Affiliations

  • The Conservative Party, MP for Rutland and Melton, Nov 2019 – Present
  • Director of Global Influence, August 2016 - October 2017, London.
  • Parliamentary Candidate, the Conservative Party, Mitcham and Morden, Apr 2017-June 2017.
  • Cross Government lead for Counter Daesh, Syria and Iraq Effort, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, August 2014 - August 2016. (This would appear to be, in part, a reference to the Counter-Daesh Coalition Communications Cell which was created in September 2015.)
  • Host TV producing, NATO Summit, September 2014-September 2014.
  • Senior Press Officer and Press Secretary to the Minister for Equipment, Support and Technology, Ministry of Defence, October 2013 - September 2014.
  • Jigsaw4U Independent visitor, May 2015 - present
  • Public Communications Limited Sole director.[1] Registered office address 8 Plover Way, London, England, SE16 7TT. Incorporated on 4 October 2011 - Dissolved on 14 January 2014.[2]
  • Torchlight - worked for this MI6 contractor in Lebanon.

See also, Contact, Publications

See also

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Contact

Publications

Notes

  1. ↑ Companies House Public Communications Limited-Officers Retrieved from Google Cache of original page dated 2 January 2020.
  2. ↑ Companies House Public Communications Limited. Archive copy of beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07796265 captured 25 January 2022.
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