Eric Salama

Eric Salama is Group Director of Strategy at WPP, controlling £20 million of investment. WPP is the largest advertising group in the world with 25,000 employees in 90 countries. WPP includes advertising agencies like J Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather, and Millward Brown the market research company. Salama worked as an adviser and speech-writer for the Labour Party front bench team for 3 years before becoming Managing Director of the Henley Centre marketing consultancy. He went to Oxford University. Tony Blair has also appointed him to the Board of the British Museum. WPP's Chief Executive, Lord Martin Sorrell, was paid £35 million in 1999 (Sorrell also sits on the Foreign Office's Panel 2000).