Ryan Coetzee
Ryan Coetzee joined the Liberal Democrats as strategy director in 2012. [1] Coetzee is helping Nick Clegg draft the Lib Dems manifesto for the UK general election in 2015.
Background
Coetzee was the Democratic Alliance’s chief strategist in 1999 in South Africa, he also served as a South African MP between 2004 and 2009. In 2004, he became the party’s CEO, organising election campaigns as well as party finances. He was special adviser to Helen Zille, the party’s leader, in 2009. [2]
Notes
- ↑ Nicholas Watt, Clegg appoints former South African MP as Lib Dem strategy director, The Guardian, 21 September 2012, accessed 18 September 2014.
- ↑ Peter Dominiczak, General election 2015 - the strategists: Ryan Coetzee, Liberal Democrats The Telegraph, 7 May 2014, accessed 18 September 2014.
