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OUR PEOPLE
Lewis Rabkin is the principal consultant.
He spent 12 years working in the parliamentary and government environment.
He is a former head of strategic support to the Minister of Public Service and Administration, responsible for communications, and cabinet and parliamentary support. In this role he provided both policy and communications advice, acted as departmental and government media spokesperson and was engaged in high-level intra-government liaison.
Prior to that he served as political adviser and strategist for the ruling party in Parliament. He has provided strategic support and advice to a range of cabinet ministers, provincial executive members, premiers and political leaders. He has written opinion pieces, speeches, keynote addresses and lectures delivered by cabinet ministers, as well as for former President Mandela. He is an expert on parliamentary and lawmaking processes. |
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Stephen Hardwick is an associate with extensive European corporate experience.
He is a founder director of The Altitude Consultancy, a UK-based public policy consultancy. He has nine years’ senior experience in corporate communications and public affairs in one of the UK’s largest companies, and also worked for ten years in politics and journalism.
He is a former group public affairs director for the airports group BAA plc, where he had responsibility for a wide array of planning, industry and environmental policy, and senior-level influencing in the UK Government and Parliament and the EU. He was also a board director and executive director for corporate, public and environmental affairs at BAA’s Budapest Airport in Hungary, a board director of Naples Airport in Italy, a corporate media spokesperson and a speaker at national and international conferences.
His political experience includes nearly four years as the political and policy adviser and speechwriter to a former Deputy Leader of the UK Labour Party, and two years as a political, parliamentary and media adviser to the first democratic Government in South Africa's National Assembly, between 1996 and 1998.
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