Biographies
Dr Elizabeth Haywood, CCMI, FRSA, ACIPR
Former Director of CBI Wales, Elizabeth Haywood is a graduate economist from Cardiff University with a PhD (Politics) from Swansea. Following an early career in the European Parliament in Brussels and Luxembourg, and in trade publications in the USA, she gained management experience at the Welsh Development Agency in Cardiff. At CBI Wales, she developed senior contacts in a wide range of businesses in Wales and throughout the UK and had a good deal of exposure to the media as the organisation’s spokesperson, which continued in her next role as Communications Director for the Association of Train Operating Companies, ATOC.Read more...
Christine Warwick MCIPR
Christine Warwick, MCIPR, trained as a journalist and worked as a reporter and feature writer for regional newspapers in the south of England for 10 years before moving into public relations.Her first role was as head of consumer public relations for Warner Lambert, a multi national pharmaceutical company, in Southampton. She subsequently joined Harrison Cowley Public Relations in Birmingham as an account manager, rising to the position of board director at the company’s Bristol office.
From 1989-1994 Christine was public relations director at the Welsh Development Agency in Cardiff. Since then, she has worked extensively as a consultant both internationally and in the UK. She has advised national and regional governments on international investment promotion, as well as devised and implemented a broad range of PR and marketing techniques for blue chip organisations, large and small businesses, the not-for-profit and public sectors.
Christine also develops and runs training courses in PR and media relations, mostly internationally on behalf of The Thomson Foundation. She has written a manual on PR and marketing which has been published in Arabic for use by charities in the Middle East.
She has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations for 25 years.
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