Gurpreet Barr
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Gurpreet Barr is managing director of UK public affairs at Edelman.
Career
After university, Barr was an English teaching assistant at Ishinomaki High School.
Between January 2006 and August 2010, he worked as political advisor and office manager for former chair of the business, innovation and skills select committee Adrian Bailey MP. During this time, he was UK co-ordinator at The Akshaya Patra Foundation, between January 2008 and July 2010, European election campaign strategist for West Midlands Labour, between May 2009 and July 2009 and a freelance writer and parliamentary commentator at epolitix.com, January 2008 until August 2010.
He was then appointed senior public affairs associate and political advisor at Financial Services Authority until July 2012, and then executive assistant to FSA's executive chairman Lord Turner and chair designate John Griffith-Jones.
In March 2013 he was appointed as a partner at Bell Pottinger and in July 2014 he was appointed managing director of UK public affairs at Edelman.[1]
Education
- BSc, International Relations and the Third World, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 2001-2004
- GDL, Law, College of Law 2009-2011[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gurpreet Barr Linkedin, accessed 22 October 2014
