Paul Baverstock

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Paul Baverstock is a board member at Centre for Social Justice and partner at Fortitude Partners Ltd. He is also a former director of strategic communication for the Conservative Party

Career

Baverstock was an associate at Mitchell Madison Group between 1992 and 1999, before working at Bell Pottinger Public Affairs, first as managing director between 1999 and March 2001 and then chief operating officer until November 2002.

He was then appointed director of strategic communication for the Conservative Party between November 2002 and December 2003.

Between January 2003 and September 2004 he worked as corporate director and associate global corporate director at Ketchum PR. Working for clients such as FedEx, Kodak and Starbucks.

In August 2007 he went back to Bell Pottinger as a Senior Consultant.

In October 2010 he was appointed managing director, head of corporate reputation at MHP Communications, until January 2013.

He is currently on the advisory board member at Coaches Across Continents, since June 2009, a partner at Fortitude Partners Ltd, since January 2013, a board member at the Centre for Social Justice, since February 2014, a board member at Opera North, since February 2014 and a founder and director of Reputation Risk Solutions.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (AB), Modern Political History, Harvard University 1986 – 1990
• MPPM, Management, Yale University 1995 – 1997