Stephen Lotinga
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Stephen Lotinga is the former director of communications to the Liberal Democrats.
From lobbyist to government adviser
Lotinga started his career as a research assistant to the Liberal Democrat Tom Brake MP in 2005, before briefly working as a prevention policy support officer with the Youth Justice Board. In May 2006 he went back to the Lib Dems, first as a parliamentary researcher to Don Foster MP, then as a culture media and sport adviser and finally as a senior health adviser.[1]
After the 2010 general election, Lotinga took up a role as a director and then managing director of public affairs and partner of Bell Pottinger Public Affairs. In 2014 he was appointed managing director of public affairs at Edelman.[1]
In April 2014 he was appointed director of communications to Nick Clegg.[2] There he joined former Bell Pottinger director Jonathan Oates and has since been joined by another former lobbyist, Ruwan Kodikara.[3]
His special adviser role earned Lotinga an annual salary of £105,000. [4]
Education
- BA, Politics & Econmics, Keele University 2000 – 2003[1]
- Masters, Politics, Manchester University 2003 – 2004[1]
Resources
- Melissa Jones and Andy Rowell, Access all areas: Westminster's (vast) fracking lobby exposed, 29 April 2015.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Stephen Lotinga LinkedIn profile, accessed 9 January 2015
- ↑ Daniel Farey-Jones, Nick Clegg hires Edelman's Stephen Lotinga as director of comms, PR Week, 4 April 2014, accessed 9 January 2015
- ↑ David Singleton Clegg brings in another lobbyist Public Affairs News, 8 January 2015, accessed 9 January 2015
- ↑ Special advisers in post, 30 November 2014 GOV.UK, accessed 28 April 2015
