Oliver Waghorn

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Oliver Waghorn is an arms trade lobbyist who was a special adviser (SpAd) to Conservative minister Liam Fox from 2010-11 during Fox's scandal-ridden stint as secretary of state for defence until 2012.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tagAccording to his LInkedIn profile, he led ' the defence and security practice across the group advising a range of defence, technology and aerospace clients on business critical issues. Over the last three years I have supported major UK, US and European primes including Boeing, Finmeccanica Lockheed Martin, QinetiQ and Babcock [1]

Early career

Prior to becoming a special adviser, Waghorn was based in the House of Commons as a research assistant to Conservative Party MP for Aldershot Gerald Howarth.[2] Howarth was appointed a junior defence minister in the Coalition government from 2010-2012.

He was originally a research analyst and project manager at Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at the Ministry of Defence from October 2006 - June 2008. [3]

Resources

Notes

  1. Waghorn, LinkedIn, last accessed 6 September 2017
  2. Right to Know, "Right to Know: 1st April – 30th June 2008", accessed 12.09.10
  3. Campaign Against the Arms Trade, Political Influence Database, data scraped from government sources, accessed 10 August 2017