David Skelton
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David Skelton is the public policy manager at Google and the founder of Conservative think tank Renewal.
Career
Skelton is a former Conservative Party candidate for North Durham in the 2010 general election, eventually losing to Kevan Jones of Labour.[1]
He was then appointed deputy director and head of research at Policy Exchange, between 2011 and 2013.
In 2013 he founded Renewal, a campaign group aimed at broadening the appeal of the Conservative Party, and was appointed director of the group. He also worked as a senior adviser at Fishburn Hedges.[2] until 2015.
In April 2015 he was appointed head of Weber Shandwick's UK public affairs practice, filling the role vacated by Alex Deane[3] in late 2014 when Deane moved to FTI Consulting. Just six month later, he left this position to be appoitned as public policy manager by Google [4]
Resources
- Melissa Jones and Andy Rowell, Access all areas: Westminster's (vast) fracking lobby exposed, 29 April 2015.
Notes
- ↑ Jonathan Walker, Increase minimum wage to win in North, Tory candidate tells Osborne The Journal, 17 January 2014, accessed 10 October 2014
- ↑ Fishburn Hedges hires Policy Exchange's David Skelton PR Week, 19 September 2013, accessed 10 October 2014
- ↑ David Singleton Weber signs Skelton for top PA post Public Affairs News, 22 April 2015, accessed 30 April 2015.
- ↑ David Singleton, Google nabs Skelton from Weber, PublicAffairs, 17 November 2015, accesed 2 December 2016.
