Edelman’s Public Affairs team offers their on-the-day analysis of the Queen’s Speech, outlining the main announcements and their context.

You can download Edelman’s analysis of the Queen’s Speech by downloading the document below

Dominic Pendry discusses the implications of the Queen’s Speech for the Property and Infrastructure industry.

Jessica Lennard discusses the implications of the Queen’s Speech for Energy & Transport.

Anthony Marlowe discusses the implications of the Queen’s Speech for the Retail & FMCG economies.

Edelman’s Public Affairs Queen’s Speech Representatives:

	Dominic Pendry, Director, Edelman Dominic is a director in Edelman’s public affairs team. He provides strategic oversight for a number of corporate clients, specializing in the infrastructure, property and digital sectors. Dominic has had a successful career in political and media campaigning for over ten years, working for political parties, corporations and trade associations. Most recently, he was Network Rail’s Head of Communications for Property.
	Jessica Lennard, Account Director, Edelman Jessica is an account director in Edelman’s public affairs team. Previously a capital markets solicitor with City firm Linklaters LLP, Jessica entered politics in 2008 working on energy policy and communications on the staff of Greg Barker MP. She was a member of the Shadow Energy and Climate Change team and managed the Conservative Party’s highly successful ‘Climate Campaign’ out of Conservative Campaign Headquarters.
	Anthony Marlowe, Account Director, Edelman Anthony joined Edelman in January 2008. He previously worked as a policy advisor in Parliament for Justine Greening MP, the then Shadow Economic Secretary and current Shadow Minister for London and Vice-Chair of the Conservative Party. While working for the Shadow Economic Secretary, Anthony worked with senior figures from a number of transport and environmental organisations.  Anthony also acted as a policy advisor to the Shadow Treasury, most notably on developing potential forms of innovative environmental taxation.

This week we’ll be letting you in on a few of our company secrets and revealing some of the advice we share with our clients. Joining Richard Sambrook this week are Stefan Stern, and former CNBC Europe Anchor Jo Sheldon, who heads up our Media Communications practice.

Following our recent discussion of the petrol crisis and Francis Maude’s jerrycan gaffe. Jo and Stefan share some of Edelman’s insight on how to avoid embarrasing (and sometimes costly) mistakes when communicating with the media.

We’d love to hear your thoughts, comment directly on the track above, or in our comments field below.

If you would like to know more about the topics covered please contact any of the speakers below.

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Podcast participants:

	Chair: Richard Sambrook, Global Vice Chairman and Chief Content Officer, Edelman Richard is Global Vice Chairman and Chief Content Officer for Edelman where he takes a strategic lead on developing media content for clients and heads the crisis and issues practice. Previously he was a 30 year veteran of BBC News where most recently he was Director of Global News, responsible for radio TV and digital services for 230 million people each week.
	Stefan Stern, Director of Strategy, Edelman Stefan has been writing and commenting on business and management for the past two decades. He wrote the Financial Times’s management column for over four years before joining Edelman in August 2010 as its new Director of Strategy. In October he was appointed Visiting Professor in management practice at the Cass business school.
	Jo Sheldon, Media Director & MD Corporate and Financial, Edelman Jo is Managing Director in the Corporate and Financial practice and as Media Director of Edelman UK runs the Strategic Media Unit – a team staffed by ex-journalists that runs high impact media campaigns and delivers senior media counsel for a variety of clients and provides media counsel across the agency. With 20 years experience working on national newspapers and television she is an effective communicator with extensive writing, journalistic skills and in depth knowledge the media.

Following last week’s political gaffe that sparked fear of an oncoming petrol crisis, and panic buying reminiscent of the year 2,000. Richard Sambrook hosts a discussion with Stefan Stern, Director of Strategy, Sarah Richardson from Edelman’s Public Affairs team, and Scott Thomson who advises on crisis and issues management.

So how did it all go wrong? Could the coalition government have improved their communications with the media? And when communication errors arise, what methods help to reduce impact?

We’d love to hear your thoughts, how do you think the government should have reacted? Comment directly on the track above, or in our comments field below.

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Podcast participants:

	Chair: Richard Sambrook, Global Vice Chairman and Chief Content Officer, Edelman Richard is Global Vice Chairman and Chief Content Officer for Edelman where he takes a strategic lead on developing media content for clients and heads the crisis and issues practice. Previously he was a 30 year veteran of BBC News where most recently he was Director of Global News, responsible for radio TV and digital services for 230 million people each week.
	Chair: Stefan Stern, Director of Strategy, Edelman Stefan has been writing and commenting on business and management for the past two decades. He wrote the Financial Times’s management column for over four years before joining Edelman in August 2010 as its new Director of Strategy. In October he was appointed Visiting Professor in management practice at the Cass business school.
	Sarah Richardson, Director, Edelman Sarah joined Edelman’s Public Affairs Practice in December 2009 after a career combining politics with journalism. She continues to write for the Evening Standard on education and the public sector and to serve as a Westminster City Councillor where she was a Cabinet Member for five years. Sarah was a Conservative Parliamentary candidate at the 2005 UK General Election and stood for the European Parliament in 2004 and 2009.
	Scott Thomson, Deputy Managing Director, Edelman Scott is the UK lead and coordinator for Europe of Edelman’s global crisis network. In this role he delivers crisis preparedness and training services and has provided counsel and support to clients on crisis assignments ranging from product recalls in the FMCG, electronics and healthcare sectors, to legal proceedings against commercial, academic and third sector institutions, and labour union disputes in the textiles and manufacturing sectors.

This week on Edelman Editions Stefan Stern, Director of Strategy and Allyson Stewart-Allen, Head of International Marketing Partners and author of the best-selling book, Working with Americans discuss the hurdles that companies may meet whilst marketing a brand in the UK & USA.

Following the success of the British boy-band One Direction in the USA last week, Allyson explains what has made them more successful than other British bands state-side and how brands must recognise what works in the UK, may not work in the USA and vice versa.

Let us know your thoughts, have you had any experiences you’d like to share dealing in different international markets?

If you would like to know how we can help you in engaging international markets, then please get in touch with our Consumer department, who will be more than happy to discuss this topic further.

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Podcast participants:

Chair: Stefan Stern, Director of Strategy, Edelman Stefan has been writing and commenting on business and management for the past two decades. He wrote the Financial Times’s management column for over four years before joining Edelman in August 2010 as its new Director of Strategy. In October he was appointed Visiting Professor in management practice at the Cass business school.

Allyson Stewart-Allen, Head of International Marketing Partners Allyson is an internationally-renowned business guru and media personality whose expertise in the fields of international marketing, US business and inter-cultural working is sought by European and US organisations growing their markets on either side of the Atlantic. Following her employment with blue-chip consulting firms Price Waterhouse, PA Consulting Group and Hay Management Consultants, Allyson now advises executives and boards of directors in the professional services.She is co-author of best-selling book Working with Americans (Prentice Hall), the first-ever business manual exclusively about the US business culture, which helps professionals improve their relationships with and profits from American business partners, bosses and colleagues.

The Coalition’s austerity drive has helped to keep Britain’s cherished AAA rating intact – so far. But has the Government got the vision to grow the economy?

This year’s Budget statement gave the Chancellor a big opportunity to set out his strategy. Stefan Stern, Director of Strategy, Edelman and Jim O’Neill, Chairman of Asset Management, Goldman Sachs discuss this year’s budget announcement and what implications it has for the UK and the wider world.

Speakers:

Chair: Stefan Stern, Director of Strategy, Edelman Stefan has been writing and commenting on business and management for the past two decades. He wrote the Financial Times’s management column for over four years before joining Edelman in August 2010 as its new Director of Strategy. In October he was appointed Visiting Professor in management practice at the Cass business school.

Jim O’Neill, Chairman of Asset Management, Goldman Sachs Jim is chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM). As chairman, he is involved in helping guide all aspects of GSAM’s business around the world. Prior to assuming this role in September 2010, Jim was head of Global Economics, Commodities and Strategy Research. He serves on the European Management Committee and the Senior Diversity Council. Jim joined Goldman Sachs in 1995 as a partner, co-head of Global Economics Research and chief currency economist. Jim is also the creator of the acronym BRICs. Together with his colleagues, he has published much research about BRICs, which has become synonymous with the emergence of Brazil, Russia, India and China as the growth opportunities of the future.

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Podcast participants:

	Chair: Stefan Stern, Director of Strategy, Edelman Stefan has been writing and commenting on business and management for the past two decades. He wrote the Financial Times’s management column for over four years before joining Edelman in August 2010 as its new Director of Strategy. In October he was appointed Visiting Professor in management practice at the Cass business school.
	Sarah Richardson, Director, Edelman Sarah joined Edelman’s Public Affairs Practice in December 2009 after a career combining politics with journalism. She continues to write for the Evening Standard on education and the public sector and to serve as a Westminster City Councillor where she was a Cabinet Member for five years. Sarah was a Conservative Parliamentary candidate at the 2005 UK General Election and stood for the European Parliament in 2004 and 2009.
	Dominic Pendry, Director, Edelman Dominic is a director in Edelman’s public affairs team. He provides strategic oversight for a number of corporate clients, specializing in the infrastructure, property and digital sectors. Dominic has had a successful career in political and media campaigning for over ten years, working for political parties, corporations and trade associations. Most recently, he was Network Rail’s Head of Communications for Property.

On 12 October 2011, Stefan Stern, Director of Strategy at Edelman hosted the panel discussion “Opinion and Debate: who sets the terms of the public conversation?” with panelists – Jenny Grey, Director of Policy & Comms, No. 10 and Cabinet Office; Iain Martin, Columnist & Consultant Editor, The Daily Mail; David Smith, Economics Editor, The Sunday Times; and Anne Spackman, Comment Editor, The Times.

Listen to the discussion by pressing the play button above.

The 2011 symposium was held between Friday 4th March and Sunday 6th March and the theme for 2011 was Community and Values.

Stefan Stern, Director of Strategy, chaired the Individual Thoughts for the Day at the 2011 Names Not Numbers symposium.

The panel included:
Robert Phillips, CEO EMEA, Edelman ‘The Advance of Citizen Capitalism’
K.A.S Quinn, Writer, ‘Victorian Values and the individuality of Crystal Palace’
Josh Howie, Comedian, ‘Religion – a Dirty Word?’

Listen to the panel discussion here.

Public Engagement is a response to the reality that the world is changing. The old architecture (top down, controlling and controlled) is being replaced by a new ecology – more democratic, more chaotic – where news and views travel at greater speed than ever before, across and between a multitude of stakeholders. The story is not one of technology but of the behavioural change that the technology has driven. As a result, the landscape of media and communications is shifting rapidly.

Use the links below to download copies of Public Engagament: Vol. 1, 2 and 3.

Hosted by Robert Phillips, UK CEO, our panel included:

• John Armitt CBE, Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority
• Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society
• Kevin Maguire, Associate Editor, the Daily Mirror
• Peter Oborne, Chief Political Columnist, the Daily Telegraph
• John Sauven, Executive Director, Greenpeace UK

Watch interviews with the panelists by clicking the right and left arrows below:

The third volume of Edelman’s annual publication, Public Engagement: Survive and Thrive in a Bigger Society, is a collection of thought pieces written by the UK team in which we continue to explore the shifting media, thought and working landscapes that we inhabit, as well as the increasingly complex relationship between businesses, brands, government, the media and society.

With the Big Society under increasing scrutiny, the articles in this volume re-imagine the role of our institutions in a changing world. They consider the behaviours that we – and others – need to adopt to be able to adapt, communicate and advance: to survive and thrive. Some of our behaviours are already appropriate; others less so.

Please use the links below to download a copy.

Richard Sambrook, Global Vice Chairman and Chief Content Officer at Edelman chairs the Product Placement podcast. He is joined by Jackie Cooper, UK Creative Director and Vice Chair, and David Fine, Director of Content, who offer their prespective on this changing landscape of TV in the UK and the new commercial opportunities which are opening up next year.

Podcast participants:

	Chair: Richard Sambrook, Global Vice Chairman and Chief Content Officer, Edelman Richard Sambrook is Global Vice Chairman and Chief Content Officer for Edelman where he takes a strategic lead on developing media content for clients and heads the crisis and issues practice. Previously he was a 30 year veteran of BBC News where most recently he was Director of Global News, responsible for radio TV and digital services for 230 million people each week.
	Jackie Cooper, UK Creative Director and Vice Chair, Edelman Jackie has known PR all her professional life. Her 25 years in the business have been blessed with meeting and learning from a wide spectrum of talent – all leading to the liberation of setting up her own agency: From working side by side with an ex Features Editor on the Financial Times, to living in the tabloid dynamite world of Publicity Guru Max Clifford – via an ethical stint at Greenpeace, launching the infamous Anti Fur Trade campaign.
	David Fine, Director of Content, JCPR/Edelman David has been in consumer PR for 15 years where he has worked with some of the UK’s biggest brands.  He now runs the Content Consultancy to provide clients with innovative communication solutions in the age of the digitized and distracted consumer.  This new take on creativity and media collateral offers brands the opportunity to create genuine 360 degree engagement and social media resonance via content partnerships with a range of stellar production partners.

This second volume of Edelman’s annual publication, Public Engagement in the Conversation Age, is a collection of thought pieces written by the UK team about the communications challenges facing brands, corporate, politics and NGOs – as well as our own industry, as we evolve from Public Relations to Public Engagement.

Discussion topics include: what future faces new and established media platforms, how are they evolving (or not) and what changes and opportunities does this cast up for advertisers in the way they engage with consumers?

Visit the Changing Advertsing Summit 2010 website to watch Jackie Cooper speaking at the summit on the centrality of PR to the advertising mix and an interview with Robert Phillips, CEO of Edelman who questions the word ‘media’ in the post-digital age of citizenship and transparency of action.

Watch an interview with Patience Wheatcroft following the breakfast event: