Gill Morris
According to her biography on the Connect Public Affairs website:
- Gill Morris has more than twenty years of direct experience of parliamentary and public affairs work. After five years working in Parliament, Gill co-founded the specialist housing and Parliamentary consultancy, Raynsford and Morris Limited. In 1992, she set up an independent consultancy practice, but was headhunted a year later to work on Government and Parliamentary relations contracts at GCI, part of Grey Global.
- Gill joined Connect Public Affairs in December 1994 as Joint Managing Director. When the company merged with GPC, she became Managing Director of GPC Connect, part of Omnicom. In late 1997, Gill headed Connect’s management buy-out team to form Connect Public Affairs in January 1998.
- Gill has led the development of the company as the leading supplier of public affairs consultancy to trade unions, public sector and not-for-profit organisations. She also heads the company’s political and public affairs conference and event management unit, Connect Conferences. Recently, Gill has overseen the expansion of Connect Public Affairs as a leading independent provider of public affairs consultancy to a rapidly-growing list of commercial clients.[1]