Katie Waring
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Katie Waring is a former special adviser who worked for secretary of state for business, innovation and skills Vincent Cable[1] and energy minister Edward Davey until February 2013.
After leaving her post with Vince Cable, Waring worked as head of corporate affairs at Global Radio, the company behind the Capital, Heart, LBC and Classic FM brands. [2]
She was hired as an associate director at Edelman in 2014, and promoted to director in 2016. [3]
Background
Education
Waring received a BA in International History and Politics from the University of Leeds (2001-4)
Career
Previously a researcher for Liberal Democrat MP David Laws,[4] Waring continued to be his special adviser in the early days of the Coalition Government until Laws (then Chief Secretary to the Treasury) resigned over expenses;[5] at which point Waring moved to Vince Cable's office.[6]
In an article about "the wild side of life in Westminster's political village", Waring remarked:
- I'm excited that everyone will think I've a glamorous life. There's a lot of camaraderie ... and a good atmosphere between most researchers and their MPs. It's a bit like university. Everybody is in each other's pockets all the time and people have the same interests. When you get so many young people working with the same interests there will be relationships ... Interns try to wheedle in. Researchers need to make themselves indispensable.[7]
Contact, Resources, Notes
Resources
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- Melissa Jones and Andy Rowell, Access all areas: Westminster's (vast) fracking lobby exposed, 29 April 2015.
Notes
- ↑ Department of Information Services, "Parliamentary Information List", accessed 07.09.10
- ↑ Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, last updated 2 October 2013, accessed 9 October 2013
- ↑ David Singleton Edelman job news Public Affairs News, 11 May 2014, accessed 18 September 2014
- ↑ Ben Russell, "New BBC drama explores the wild side of life in Westminster's political village", The Independent, 20.01.07, accessed 13.09.10
- ↑ BBC, "Treasury Minister David Laws resigns over expenses", 29.05.10, accessed 13.09.10
- ↑ "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills ", accessed 13.09.10
- ↑ Ben Russell, "New BBC drama explores the wild side of life in Westminster's political village", The Independent, 20.01.07, accessed 13.09.10