Bio

Iain is an expert in integrated communications, global political risk and public policy. He has over 25 years experience in communications, initially as a business journalist and then as a founding shareholder at Incisive Media. He has also worked for a range of politicians, including Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP on his leadership bids. Iain is co founder and Executive Chairman at Cicero and focuses on public policy and corporate communications strategy supporting many global FTSE and Fortune 500 blue chip organisations. He provides CEO and Board level counsel. In September 2021 he was appointed by the UK Government as the first LGBT Business Champion - to drive forward workplace equality for LGBT people. He is a non executive director at Innovate Finance - the body that represents the UK’s global FinTech community and is chairman of the Fintech Strategy Group for the Corporation of London/Innovate Finance. He is one of the Financial Times / OUTstanding Global 100 Executives and a FT Male Champion of Women in Business. He is a Stonewall Ambassador and a Trustee of GiveOUT. He regularly contributes to national and international print and broadcast media including Sky News and BBC. He is also contributing Political Editor of Square Mile. Iain is a past Chairman of the Association of Professional Political Consultants and a past Chairman of the CIPR Public Affairs group. Iain is a Freeman of the City of London. He is a Fellow of both the CIPR and the PRCA. He was ranked in the top quartile of the Total Politics Top 100 Lobbyists and appears in the PR Week Power Book. CityAM also includes him in the list of ''The City’s most influential financial PRs''​ voted by broadcast and national business editors. He features in the Square Mile ''Power 100'' list. He served on the Advisory Board of the Queen Elizabeth II Garden in New York from 2012 until 2016.