Advocate Policy and Public Affairs

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Advocate is a lobbying consultancy specialising in healthcare, which was formed in September 2007.

According to its website, recent lobbying successes have included "helping a major pharmaceutical client secure an ongoing Ministerial commitment to fund an expensive therapy area, and assisting a leading professional body to amend government legislation during its passage through the Houses of Parliament."

People

• Jamie Holyer, managing director and founder. Former Labour Party press officer, Holyer was an account director with lobbying agency Political Intelligence and a senior consultant with Fleishman-Hillard (formerly GPC International). He then went back to Labour to work on the party's third successive General Election victory in 2005.
• Dr Sandra Nestler-Parr, director market access & reimbursement
• Julie Yvin, researcher
• Ed Keyser, researcher
• Douglas Jefferson, researcher

APPC UK

June 2014-August 2014

Jamie Holyer | Douglas Jefferson | Edward Keyser | Vashti McDonald-Clink | Dr Sandra Nestler-Parr | Julie Yvin

Clients

June 2014-August 2014

Aegerion | aHUS Action | Alpha-1 Alliance | Bayer Pharma | CSL Behring | PNH-Alliance | Transplant 2013 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals

2008

Bayer Schering Pharma | IDIS | Alexion Biopharmaceuticals | Medical Defence Union | Astellas | UKCTA

Contacts

One Queen Anne’s Gate, London, SW1h 9BT
http://www.advocate-consulting.co.uk

Resources

• Advocate Policy & Public Affairs Consulting Ltd, APPC Register Entry for 1 December 2007 to 29 February 2008
• Advocate Policy & Public Affairs Consulting Ltd, APPC Register Entry for 1 June 2009 to 31 August 2009

Notes

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