Oliver Waghorn
Oliver Waghorn is a former special adviser to Conservative minister Liam Fox when he was secretary of state for defence [1]from 2010 until 2012. He is now a chief lobbyist for Britain's most controversial arms manufacturer BAE Systems.
After scandal forced Fox to resign as minister in 2012,
Waghorn began working as a freelance consultant for corporate communications and public policy. He was later appointed director and head of UK Defence and Security practice at lobbying firm Interel.[2]
In October 2016 Waghorn secured a plum job as head of government relations (external relations and policy) at BAE Systems, not long after prime minister Theresa May had given Fox a new Cabinet position as trade minister.
Background
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.[3] He served as a research analyst and project manager at Defence Science & Technology Laboratory at the Ministry of Defence from Oct 2006 - Jun 2008. [4]
Through the revolving door: turns lobbyist for big arms traders
Just over a year after going freelance, Waghorn joined Interel Consulting, where, according 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 [5]
Resources
- Campaign Against the Arms Trade, Political Influence Database, last updated 2016
Notes
- ↑ Department of Information Services, "Parliamentary Information List", accessed 07.09.10
- ↑ Oliver Waghorn Linkedin, Accessed 18 September 2014
- ↑ Right to Know, "Right to Know: 1st April – 30th June 2008", accessed 12.09.10
- ↑ Campaign Against the Arms Trade, Political Influence Database, data scraped from government sources, accessed 10 August 2017
- ↑ Waghorn, LinkedIn, last accessed 6 September 2017