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	'''Kevin Bell''' is a seasoned lobbyist who has advised the UK [[Conservative Party]], and is global practice chair for public affairs at [[Burson-Marsteller]].		'''Kevin Bell''' is a seasoned lobbyist who has advised the UK [[Conservative Party]], and is global practice chair for public affairs at [[Burson-Marsteller]].

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	'''Kevin Bell''' is a seasoned lobbyist who has advised the UK [[Conservative Party]], and is global practice chair for public affairs at [[Burson-Marsteller]].		'''Kevin Bell''' is a seasoned lobbyist who has advised the UK [[Conservative Party]], and is global practice chair for public affairs at [[Burson-Marsteller]].

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 *2012: Executive chairman, [[Maitland Political]]
 *2014: Global practice chair for public affairs, [[Burson-Marsteller]]
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:Lobbying]]

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−	:Bell ~~joined~~ [[~~KH Publicity~~]] ~~one month after Thatcher entered Downing Street in 1979. He then set up Michael Forsyth Associates with the then prospective candidate for Stirling~~, and ~~who~~ is ~~now the Government's employment minister.~~ The PR company pursued a defiantly Thatcherite philosophy and its client list read like a Who's Who of companies following an evangelical crusade to privatise the public sector. But, when Forsyth went to Westminster in 1983, Bell also moved and had his first brief spell with Grayling before leaving to launch a freelance career working for the right-wing pro-smoking libertarian pressure group [[~~FOREST~~]].~~<ref>PR Week October 28, 1993 Profile: Kevin Bell - Swimming away from Grayling</ref>~~	+	'''Kevin Bell''' is a seasoned lobbyist who has advised the UK [[Conservative Party]], and is global practice chair for public affairs at [[Burson-Marsteller]].

		+	==Background==
		+	:Bell joined [[KH Publicity]] one month after Thatcher entered Downing Street in 1979. He then set up [[Michael Forsyth Associates]] with the then prospective candidate for Stirling, and who is now the Government's employment minister. The PR company pursued a defiantly Thatcherite philosophy and its client list read like a Who's Who of companies following an evangelical crusade to privatise the public sector. But, when Forsyth went to Westminster in 1983, Bell also moved and had his first brief spell with [[Grayling]] before leaving to launch a freelance career working for the right-wing pro-smoking libertarian pressure group [[FOREST]].<ref>''PR Week'' October 28, 1993 Profile: Kevin Bell - Swimming away from Grayling</ref>

	:Kevin Bell exudes charm, polish and ardour - in an agreeable, English way. These are qualities that will be required in abundance if the seasoned lobbyist is to fire up American PR colossus Fleishman-Hillard's (F-H) rather lacklustre UK operation. It is a company from over there that has been doing not so well over here. Previous UK managing director [[Scott Clark]], the placid young guy from Colorado who originally sold his healthcare agency [[CPR]] to the firm, has gone back home. And so after four years as managing director at F-H's public affairs arm [[GPC International]], Bell, 46, has stepped into the wider role, overseeing a pounds 9m business. Bell passes 25 years in the public affairs industry in May. 'I'm a PR man who just happens to have been working in public affairs for most of my career,' he says, no doubt conscious of the broader challenges now under his remit. He began his career working at the [[Michael Forsyth Associates\|eponymous agency]] of Tory MP [[Michael Forsyth]]. A stint at [[Profile Political Relations]] led to him co-founding [[Westminster Strategy]] alongside renowned lobbyists [[Rosemary Grogan]] and [[Michael Burrell]], and taking a subsequent wider role at parent [[Grayling]]. He was later asked by namesake [[Tim Bell]] to set up [[Lowe Bell Political]] (which would become [[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs]]), and joined [[GPC]] (now [[Fleishman-Hillard]]) in 2000.<ref>PR Week March 12, 2004 TIGER BELL READY FOR F-H FIGHT - KEVIN BELL, MANAGING DIRECTOR, FLEISHMAN-HILLARD UK BYLINE: By Ravi Chandiramani SECTION: PROFILE, Pg. 19</ref> After leaving FH in 2011 and a period of 'gardening leave', Bell was appointed executive chairman of [[Maitland Political]] between March 2012 and January 2014<ref> Alec Mattinson [http://www.prweek.com/article/1121138/former-fleishman-hillard-chief-kevin-bell-resurfaces-maitland-political Former Fleishman-Hillard chief Kevin Bell resurfaces at Maitland Political] ''PR Week'' 7 March 2012, accessed 13 October 2014 </ref>. He is currently global practice chair for public affairs at [[Burson-Marsteller]].<ref> [http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-bell/3/a90/805 Kevin Bell] ''Linkedin'', accessed 13 October 2014 </ref>		:Kevin Bell exudes charm, polish and ardour - in an agreeable, English way. These are qualities that will be required in abundance if the seasoned lobbyist is to fire up American PR colossus Fleishman-Hillard's (F-H) rather lacklustre UK operation. It is a company from over there that has been doing not so well over here. Previous UK managing director [[Scott Clark]], the placid young guy from Colorado who originally sold his healthcare agency [[CPR]] to the firm, has gone back home. And so after four years as managing director at F-H's public affairs arm [[GPC International]], Bell, 46, has stepped into the wider role, overseeing a pounds 9m business. Bell passes 25 years in the public affairs industry in May. 'I'm a PR man who just happens to have been working in public affairs for most of my career,' he says, no doubt conscious of the broader challenges now under his remit. He began his career working at the [[Michael Forsyth Associates\|eponymous agency]] of Tory MP [[Michael Forsyth]]. A stint at [[Profile Political Relations]] led to him co-founding [[Westminster Strategy]] alongside renowned lobbyists [[Rosemary Grogan]] and [[Michael Burrell]], and taking a subsequent wider role at parent [[Grayling]]. He was later asked by namesake [[Tim Bell]] to set up [[Lowe Bell Political]] (which would become [[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs]]), and joined [[GPC]] (now [[Fleishman-Hillard]]) in 2000.<ref>PR Week March 12, 2004 TIGER BELL READY FOR F-H FIGHT - KEVIN BELL, MANAGING DIRECTOR, FLEISHMAN-HILLARD UK BYLINE: By Ravi Chandiramani SECTION: PROFILE, Pg. 19</ref> After leaving FH in 2011 and a period of 'gardening leave', Bell was appointed executive chairman of [[Maitland Political]] between March 2012 and January 2014<ref> Alec Mattinson [http://www.prweek.com/article/1121138/former-fleishman-hillard-chief-kevin-bell-resurfaces-maitland-political Former Fleishman-Hillard chief Kevin Bell resurfaces at Maitland Political] ''PR Week'' 7 March 2012, accessed 13 October 2014 </ref>. He is currently global practice chair for public affairs at [[Burson-Marsteller]].<ref> [http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-bell/3/a90/805 Kevin Bell] ''Linkedin'', accessed 13 October 2014 </ref>

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-:Kevin Bell exudes charm, polish and ardour - in an agreeable, English way. These are qualities that will be required in abundance if the seasoned lobbyist is to fire up American PR colossus Fleishman-Hillard's (F-H) rather lacklustre UK operation. It is a company from over there that has been doing not so well over here. Previous UK managing director [[Scott Clark]], the placid young guy from Colorado who originally sold his healthcare agency [[CPR]] to the firm, has gone back home. And so after four years as managing director at F-H's public affairs arm [[GPC International]], Bell, 46, has stepped into the wider role, overseeing a pounds 9m business.  Bell passes 25 years in the public affairs industry in May. 'I'm a PR man who just happens to have been working in public affairs for most of my career,' he says, no doubt conscious of the broader challenges now under his remit. He began his career working at the [[Michael Forsyth Associates|eponymous agency]] of Tory MP [[Michael Forsyth]]. A stint at [[Profile Political Relations]] led to him co-founding [[Westminster Strategy]] alongside renowned lobbyists [[Rosemary Grogan]] and [[Michael Burrell]], and taking a subsequent wider role at parent [[Grayling]]. He was later asked by namesake [[Tim Bell]] to set up [[Lowe Bell Political]] (which would become [[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs]]), and joined [[GPC]] in 2000.<ref>PR Week March 12, 2004 TIGER BELL READY FOR F-H FIGHT - KEVIN BELL, MANAGING DIRECTOR, FLEISHMAN-HILLARD UK BYLINE: By Ravi Chandiramani SECTION: PROFILE, Pg. 19</ref>
+:Kevin Bell exudes charm, polish and ardour - in an agreeable, English way. These are qualities that will be required in abundance if the seasoned lobbyist is to fire up American PR colossus Fleishman-Hillard's (F-H) rather lacklustre UK operation. It is a company from over there that has been doing not so well over here. Previous UK managing director [[Scott Clark]], the placid young guy from Colorado who originally sold his healthcare agency [[CPR]] to the firm, has gone back home. And so after four years as managing director at F-H's public affairs arm [[GPC International]], Bell, 46, has stepped into the wider role, overseeing a pounds 9m business.  Bell passes 25 years in the public affairs industry in May. 'I'm a PR man who just happens to have been working in public affairs for most of my career,' he says, no doubt conscious of the broader challenges now under his remit. He began his career working at the [[Michael Forsyth Associates|eponymous agency]] of Tory MP [[Michael Forsyth]]. A stint at [[Profile Political Relations]] led to him co-founding [[Westminster Strategy]] alongside renowned lobbyists [[Rosemary Grogan]] and [[Michael Burrell]], and taking a subsequent wider role at parent [[Grayling]]. He was later asked by namesake [[Tim Bell]] to set up [[Lowe Bell Political]] (which would become [[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs]]), and joined [[GPC]] (now [[Fleishman-Hillard]]) in 2000.<ref>PR Week March 12, 2004 TIGER BELL READY FOR F-H FIGHT - KEVIN BELL, MANAGING DIRECTOR, FLEISHMAN-HILLARD UK BYLINE: By Ravi Chandiramani SECTION: PROFILE, Pg. 19</ref> After leaving FH in 2011 and a period of 'gardening leave', Bell was appointed executive chairman of [[Maitland Political]] between March 2012 and January 2014<ref> Alec Mattinson [http://www.prweek.com/article/1121138/former-fleishman-hillard-chief-kevin-bell-resurfaces-maitland-political Former Fleishman-Hillard chief Kevin Bell resurfaces at Maitland Political] ''PR Week'' 7 March 2012, accessed 13 October 2014 </ref>. He is currently global practice chair for public affairs at [[Burson-Marsteller]].<ref> [http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-bell/3/a90/805 Kevin Bell] ''Linkedin'', accessed 13 October 2014 </ref>
 ==Unpaid lobbying and PR for the Tories==
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 *2000: Managing director, [[GPC International]]
 *2004: Managing director, [[Fleishman-Hillard]] UK
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:Lobbying]]

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	:Kevin Bell exudes charm, polish and ardour - in an agreeable, English way. These are qualities that will be required in abundance if the seasoned lobbyist is to fire up American PR colossus Fleishman-Hillard's (F-H) rather lacklustre UK operation. It is a company from over there that has been doing not so well over here. Previous UK managing director [[Scott Clark]], the placid young guy from Colorado who originally sold his healthcare agency [[CPR]] to the firm, has gone back home. And so after four years as managing director at F-H's public affairs arm [[GPC International]], Bell, 46, has stepped into the wider role, overseeing a pounds 9m business. Bell passes 25 years in the public affairs industry in May. 'I'm a PR man who just happens to have been working in public affairs for most of my career,' he says, no doubt conscious of the broader challenges now under his remit. He began his career working at the [[Michael Forsyth Associates\|eponymous agency]] of Tory MP [[Michael Forsyth]]. A stint at [[Profile Political Relations]] led to him co-founding [[Westminster Strategy]] alongside renowned lobbyists [[Rosemary Grogan]] and [[Michael Burrell]], and taking a subsequent wider role at parent [[Grayling]]. He was later asked by namesake [[Tim Bell]] to set up [[Lowe Bell Political]] (which would become [[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs]]), and joined [[GPC]] in 2000.<ref>PR Week March 12, 2004 TIGER BELL READY FOR F-H FIGHT - KEVIN BELL, MANAGING DIRECTOR, FLEISHMAN-HILLARD UK BYLINE: By Ravi Chandiramani SECTION: PROFILE, Pg. 19</ref>		:Kevin Bell exudes charm, polish and ardour - in an agreeable, English way. These are qualities that will be required in abundance if the seasoned lobbyist is to fire up American PR colossus Fleishman-Hillard's (F-H) rather lacklustre UK operation. It is a company from over there that has been doing not so well over here. Previous UK managing director [[Scott Clark]], the placid young guy from Colorado who originally sold his healthcare agency [[CPR]] to the firm, has gone back home. And so after four years as managing director at F-H's public affairs arm [[GPC International]], Bell, 46, has stepped into the wider role, overseeing a pounds 9m business. Bell passes 25 years in the public affairs industry in May. 'I'm a PR man who just happens to have been working in public affairs for most of my career,' he says, no doubt conscious of the broader challenges now under his remit. He began his career working at the [[Michael Forsyth Associates\|eponymous agency]] of Tory MP [[Michael Forsyth]]. A stint at [[Profile Political Relations]] led to him co-founding [[Westminster Strategy]] alongside renowned lobbyists [[Rosemary Grogan]] and [[Michael Burrell]], and taking a subsequent wider role at parent [[Grayling]]. He was later asked by namesake [[Tim Bell]] to set up [[Lowe Bell Political]] (which would become [[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs]]), and joined [[GPC]] in 2000.<ref>PR Week March 12, 2004 TIGER BELL READY FOR F-H FIGHT - KEVIN BELL, MANAGING DIRECTOR, FLEISHMAN-HILLARD UK BYLINE: By Ravi Chandiramani SECTION: PROFILE, Pg. 19</ref>
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		+	==Unpaid lobbying and PR for the Tories==

	[[Kevin Bell]] hosted the launch of [[Conservatives in Communications]], a group formed in July 2011 by Tory public relations executives and lobbyists with the aim of providing unofficial communications advice to the [[Conservative Party]].<ref name="PR Week Conservatives in Communications">David Singleton, [http://prweek.co.uk/uk/channel/PublicAffairs/article/1083713/Tory%20PR%20chiefs%20unite%20to%20assist%20Conservative%20Party%20comms%20effort/ 'Tory PR Chiefs Unite To Assist Conservative Party Comms Effort'], ''PR Week'', 5 August 2011.</ref>		[[Kevin Bell]] hosted the launch of [[Conservatives in Communications]], a group formed in July 2011 by Tory public relations executives and lobbyists with the aim of providing unofficial communications advice to the [[Conservative Party]].<ref name="PR Week Conservatives in Communications">David Singleton, [http://prweek.co.uk/uk/channel/PublicAffairs/article/1083713/Tory%20PR%20chiefs%20unite%20to%20assist%20Conservative%20Party%20comms%20effort/ 'Tory PR Chiefs Unite To Assist Conservative Party Comms Effort'], ''PR Week'', 5 August 2011.</ref>

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	:Bell joined [[KH Publicity]] one month after Thatcher entered Downing Street in 1979. He then set up Michael Forsyth Associates with the then prospective candidate for Stirling, and who is now the Government's employment minister. The PR company pursued a defiantly Thatcherite philosophy and its client list read like a Who's Who of companies following an evangelical crusade to privatise the public sector. But, when Forsyth went to Westminster in 1983, Bell also moved and had his first brief spell with Grayling before leaving to launch a freelance career working for the right-wing pro-smoking libertarian pressure group [[FOREST]].<ref>PR Week October 28, 1993 Profile: Kevin Bell - Swimming away from Grayling</ref>		:Bell joined [[KH Publicity]] one month after Thatcher entered Downing Street in 1979. He then set up Michael Forsyth Associates with the then prospective candidate for Stirling, and who is now the Government's employment minister. The PR company pursued a defiantly Thatcherite philosophy and its client list read like a Who's Who of companies following an evangelical crusade to privatise the public sector. But, when Forsyth went to Westminster in 1983, Bell also moved and had his first brief spell with Grayling before leaving to launch a freelance career working for the right-wing pro-smoking libertarian pressure group [[FOREST]].<ref>PR Week October 28, 1993 Profile: Kevin Bell - Swimming away from Grayling</ref>


	:Kevin Bell exudes charm, polish and ardour - in an agreeable, English way. These are qualities that will be required in abundance if the seasoned lobbyist is to fire up American PR colossus Fleishman-Hillard's (F-H) rather lacklustre UK operation. It is a company from over there that has been doing not so well over here. Previous UK managing director [[Scott Clark]], the placid young guy from Colorado who originally sold his healthcare agency [[CPR]] to the firm, has gone back home. And so after four years as managing director at F-H's public affairs arm [[GPC International]], Bell, 46, has stepped into the wider role, overseeing a pounds 9m business. Bell passes 25 years in the public affairs industry in May. 'I'm a PR man who just happens to have been working in public affairs for most of my career,' he says, no doubt conscious of the broader challenges now under his remit. He began his career working at the [[Michael Forsyth Associates\|eponymous agency]] of Tory MP [[Michael Forsyth]]. A stint at [[Profile Political Relations]] led to him co-founding [[Westminster Strategy]] alongside renowned lobbyists [[Rosemary Grogan]] and [[Michael Burrell]], and taking a subsequent wider role at parent [[Grayling]]. He was later asked by namesake [[Tim Bell]] to set up [[Lowe Bell Political]] (which would become [[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs]]), and joined [[GPC]] in 2000.<ref>PR Week March 12, 2004 TIGER BELL READY FOR F-H FIGHT - KEVIN BELL, MANAGING DIRECTOR, FLEISHMAN-HILLARD UK BYLINE: By Ravi Chandiramani SECTION: PROFILE, Pg. 19</ref>		:Kevin Bell exudes charm, polish and ardour - in an agreeable, English way. These are qualities that will be required in abundance if the seasoned lobbyist is to fire up American PR colossus Fleishman-Hillard's (F-H) rather lacklustre UK operation. It is a company from over there that has been doing not so well over here. Previous UK managing director [[Scott Clark]], the placid young guy from Colorado who originally sold his healthcare agency [[CPR]] to the firm, has gone back home. And so after four years as managing director at F-H's public affairs arm [[GPC International]], Bell, 46, has stepped into the wider role, overseeing a pounds 9m business. Bell passes 25 years in the public affairs industry in May. 'I'm a PR man who just happens to have been working in public affairs for most of my career,' he says, no doubt conscious of the broader challenges now under his remit. He began his career working at the [[Michael Forsyth Associates\|eponymous agency]] of Tory MP [[Michael Forsyth]]. A stint at [[Profile Political Relations]] led to him co-founding [[Westminster Strategy]] alongside renowned lobbyists [[Rosemary Grogan]] and [[Michael Burrell]], and taking a subsequent wider role at parent [[Grayling]]. He was later asked by namesake [[Tim Bell]] to set up [[Lowe Bell Political]] (which would become [[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs]]), and joined [[GPC]] in 2000.<ref>PR Week March 12, 2004 TIGER BELL READY FOR F-H FIGHT - KEVIN BELL, MANAGING DIRECTOR, FLEISHMAN-HILLARD UK BYLINE: By Ravi Chandiramani SECTION: PROFILE, Pg. 19</ref>
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		+	[[Kevin Bell]] hosted the launch of [[Conservatives in Communications]], a group formed in July 2011 by Tory public relations executives and lobbyists with the aim of providing unofficial communications advice to the [[Conservative Party]].<ref name="PR Week Conservatives in Communications">David Singleton, [http://prweek.co.uk/uk/channel/PublicAffairs/article/1083713/Tory%20PR%20chiefs%20unite%20to%20assist%20Conservative%20Party%20comms%20effort/ 'Tory PR Chiefs Unite To Assist Conservative Party Comms Effort'], ''PR Week'', 5 August 2011.</ref>

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 *1986-1991: Director, [[Westminster Strategy]]
 *1991-93: Managing director of The [[Grayling Company]]
-*1994: Founding director, Lowe Bell Political
+*1994: Founding director, [[Lowe Bell Political]]
 *2000: Managing director, [[GPC International]]
 *2004: Managing director, [[Fleishman-Hillard]] UK

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 ==Career==
-* 1979: KH Publicity, run by [[Tony Canning]]
+* 1979: [[KH Publicity]], run by [[Tony Canning]]
-*1981-84: Michael Forsyth Associates
+*1981-84: [[Michael Forsyth Associates]]
-*1984: First brief period with the Grayling Group
+*1984: First brief period with the [[Grayling Group]]
 *1984-85: Freelance work - worked for [[FOREST]]
-*1985-86: Joined Profile PR
+*1985-86: Joined [[Profile PR]]
-*1986-1991: Director, Westminster Strategy
+*1986-1991: Director, [[Westminster Strategy]]
-*1991-93: Managing director of The Grayling Company
+*1991-93: Managing director of The [[Grayling Company]]
 *1994: Founding director, Lowe Bell Political
 *2000: Managing director, [[GPC International]]