Luke Havill
British strategic communications practitioner; Head of Advisory Team at the European Strategic Communications Network (from April 2019); previously Development Director of The Network Hub, Communications Adviser Europe with RICU-I, Head of Consultancy at the Syria Strategic Communications Advisory Team, Senior Associate at Albany Associates and consultant at Bell Pottinger Sans Frontieres
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| Image |  Luke Havill from his Twitter profile picture @HavillL. Accessed 4 March 2020. The Twitter account appears not to have been used since 2013. |
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| Nationality | British |
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| Occupation | Strategic communications; consultancy; P-CVE advisory |
| Known for | Head of Advisory Team, European Strategic Communications Network; Development Director, Network Hub; Communications Adviser Europe, RICU-I; Head of Consultancy, Syria Strategic Communications Advisory Team; Senior Associate, Albany Associates; consultant, Bell Pottinger Sans Frontieres |
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Luke Havill is a British strategic communications practitioner specialising in preventing and countering violent extremism (P-CVE). He has held successive roles linking the UK Home Office’s Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU), its European export vehicles and private contractors in the same ecosystem.
Career
- European Strategic Communications Network – Head of Advisory Team, Apr 2019 – Present. Location: Brussels. Providing advice to EU Member State governments and DG HOME on the use of strategic communications in P-CVE.
- The Network Hub – Development Director, Mar 2018 – Mar 2019. Location: London, United Kingdom. Building the capacity of civil society organisations across Europe to sustainably improve their reach and impact into communities where vulnerable individuals may be at risk of radicalisation.
- RICU-I – Communications Adviser Europe, Aug 2017 – Mar 2018. Location: London.
- Syria Strategic Communications Advisory Team – Head Of Consultancy, Jan 2016 – Aug 2017. Location: Brussels/London.
- Albany Associates – Senior Associate, Jan 2013 – Jan 2016. Providing innovative communications strategies and solutions in challenging and transitional environments.
- Bell Pottinger Sans Frontieres – Consultant, Jul 2010 – Jan 2013. Location: Curzon Street, Mayfair, London. Solving and managing complex geo-political problems and large-scale reputational issues.
- Chime Communications – Graduate, Aug 2009 – Jul 2010.
- Warwick Emanuel PR – Executive, 2009.[1]
His trajectory runs from commercial PR (Warwick Emanuel, Chime, Bell Pottinger Sans Frontieres) into the post-conflict strategic-communications contractors (Albany Associates), then into the RICU-linked European structures (SSCAT, RICU-I, Network Hub, ESCN). The Network Hub and ESCN roles overlapped with the period in which Breakthrough/Zinc personnel were exporting the RICU “hub” model of deniable campaign production to European civil-society organisations. Miller’s 2022 report on the Radicalisation Awareness Network lists Havill among the senior ESCN staff with significant prior history in RICU-linked work.[2]
See also
- European Strategic Communications Network
- Network Hub
- Research, Information and Communications Unit
- Syria Strategic Communications Advisory Team
- Albany Associates
- Bell Pottinger
- Breakthrough Media Network / Zinc Network
External links
- Luke Havill LinkedIn (archived 4 March 2020)
- Twitter @HavillL (inactive since 2013)
- David Miller, The Radicalisation Awareness Network (Spinwatch / Public Interest Investigations, February 2022) – Chapter 5
- The Guardian, 2 May 2016 (“Inside Ricu…”)
Notes
- ↑ LinkedIn Luke Havill. Accessed 4 March 2020.
- ↑ David Miller, The Radicalisation Awareness Network: Policy network in search of an evidence base or covert propaganda platform?, Public Interest Investigations / Spinwatch, February 2022, Chapter 5.