Oliver Waghorn
Oliver Waghorn is a lobbyist and former special adviser (SpAd) to Conservative minister Liam Fox when he was secretary of state for defence [1]from 2010 until 2011.
In October 2016 Waghorn secured a plum job as head of government relations (external relations and policy) at Britain's most controversial arms manufacturer BAE Systems, not long after prime minister Theresa May had given his old boss Fox a new Cabinet position as trade minister.
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Through the revolving door: turns lobbyist for big arms traders
After nearly two years as Fox's SpAd, Waghorn left the government in October 2011 to work as a freelance consultant 'for corporate communications and public policy'.
A year after going freelance, Waghorn joined lobbying firmInterel Consulting as a director and head of UK Defence and Security practice.[2]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 [3]
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.[4] 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. [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
- ↑ Waghorn, LinkedIn, last accessed 6 September 2017
- ↑ 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
