Ruwan Kodikara

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Ruwan Kodikara is senior adviser at Quiller Consultants.

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Career

Kodikara first job was as a press assistant for the Liberal Democrats from 2000-2001.

He then joined PR company Bell Pottinger Communications and Chime Communications as a one year graduate trainee in 2004. He then became a senior account executive at Bell Pottinger Communications between June 2005 and September 2007.

He was then appointed account director at Tetra Strategy until July 2012.

Until December 2013, he worked as an associate director for MHP Communications.[1]

He is now a senior adviser at Quiller Consultants, a role he has held since January 2014.[2]

Kodikara has worked for the Liberal Democrats press office on three election campaigns and is chair of the party’s local organisation in Kingston and Surbiton.[2]

Affiliations

  • Chairman, Kingston & Surbiton Liberal Democrats, from November 2013
  • Treasurer, Lib Dems in Communications, from 2012[1]

Education

  • BA European politics, University of Nottingham[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ruwan Kodikara Linkedin, undated, accessed 7 October 2014
  2. 2.0 2.1 Daniel Farey-Jones Quiller hires Ruwan Kodikara 16 December 2013, accessed 7 October 2014