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Ruwan Kodikara is the head of media and brand for Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats.
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Career
Kodikara first job was as a press assistant for the Liberal Democrats from 2000-2001.
He then joined PR company Bell Pottinger Communications and Chime Communications as a one year graduate trainee in 2004. He then became a senior account executive at Bell Pottinger Communications between June 2005 and September 2007.
He was then appointed account director at Tetra Strategy until July 2012.
Until December 2013, he worked as an associate director for MHP Communications.[1]
He was appointed as a senior adviser at Quiller Consultants in January 2014.[2]
In January 2015, in the build up to the 2015 General Election, he was hired as of head of media and brand for the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.
Kodikara has worked for the Liberal Democrats press office on three election campaigns and is chair of the party’s local organisation in Kingston and Surbiton.[2]
Affiliations
- Chairman, Kingston & Surbiton Liberal Democrats, from November 2013
- Treasurer, Lib Dems in Communications, from 2012[1]
Education
- BA European politics, University of Nottingham[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ruwan Kodikara Linkedin, undated, accessed 7 October 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Daniel Farey-Jones Quiller hires Ruwan Kodikara 16 December 2013, accessed 7 October 2014
