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Simon Buckby

Managing Director

Simon established Champollion in the summer of 2005 after serving as a Partner at a general PR agency, having spotted a gap in the market for a specialist consultancy with genuine media understanding and campaign know-how, creative flair and public policy knowledge.

This followed a career garnering direct experience of the way the media works. Simon has been fully trained in all media skills and has an enormous array of contacts from his years as the Social Affairs and Employment Correspondents of the Financial Times, a political reporter for the BBC and a producer at LWT.

Recently named in the prestigious list of top 100 public affairs professionals in Britain by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and Total Politics magazine, Simon has a proven track-record as a political strategist and campaign communicator. For four years he was the Chief Executive of Britain in Europe, a business-led coalition launched in 1999 by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and supported by prominent Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. This was a unique opportunity to work very closely with the most influential politicians in Westminster and Brussels, along with leaders from across the business, trade union and voluntary sectors, on one of the most toxic media issues of recent years.

Simon has also had senior roles in the Labour Party: he managed Labour's advertising campaign for the 1997 general election and was an adviser to John Prescott MP.