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A Guide to Brexit Lobbying	
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Who is lobbying over Brexit?
CLICK FOR THE FULL LIST OF BREXIT LOBBYISTS (so far!).They include the following:
Leave lobby groups
*Legatum Institute
*Economists for Free Trade
*Institute for Free Trade
*Red Tape Initiative
Lobbyists-for-hire
*Teneo Blue Rubicon
*Portland PR
*Media Intelligence Partners
*Squire Patton Boggs
*Covington & Burling LLP
'Leave' donors
*Top 20 Brexit donors (NB this is a work in progress)
*Arron Banks
*Peter Hargreaves
*Jeremy Hosking
'Leave' lobbyists
*Matthew Elliott
*Michael Gove 
*Steve Baker MP
*Alex Deane
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===References===
Category:Brexit
Brian Ager

Prior to being Director General of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, he was Director of EuropaBio. He served with the European Commission’s Directorate General for Science, Research and Development and as a consultant with the OECD. He has worked for ten years in the UK Government’s Health and Safety Executive firstly as a Specialist Inspector of health and safety and then as Secretary to the UK’s Advisory Committee on Genetic Manipulation. Before that he held posts at the UK Department of Health and in a National Health Service hospital as a clinical biochemist.http://212.3.246.100/Objects/2/Files/BACV.pdf
==References==
Category:Pharma Lobby Groups
Brian Ashcroft

From the Fraser of Allander Institute website:
Brian is Policy Director and edits the Quarterly Economic Commentary. He joined the Fraser of Allander Institute in 1986 and served as Director from 1989 to 1999. He is a member of the Centre for Public Policy for Regions a SHEFC funded joint initiative between the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde and is Co-Director of the Scotecon, the Scottish Economic Policy Network. He is a member of several official advisory/management boards including the Scottish Industrial Development Advisory Board (SIDAB), and the Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland (ERINI). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Education
BA (Hons) University of Lancaster, 1973
MA (with Distinction) University of Lancaster, 1974
Contact Details
Telephone:0141 548 3957
Email:b.k.ashcroft@strath.ac.uk
Research
Regional entrepreneurship and innovation
Regional policy
The Scottish economy and devolution
==Selected Publications==
"New Wealth for Old Nations: Scotland's Economic Prospects", with D Coyle and W Alexander (Eds), Princeton University Press, 2005.
"Industry and location effects on UK plants innovation propensity", with J H Love, S Roper and, S Dunlop, Annals of Regional Science Vol. 34 No. 4, pp 489-502, 2000.
"Firm births and employment change in British counties", with J H Love, Papers in Regional Science 75, 4, pp 1-18, 1996.
Brian Binley

Brian Binley was the Conservative MP for Northampton South from 2005 to 2015.Mr Brian Binley, UK Parliament, 10 September 2013.
In July 2013 he announced he would stand down at the 2015 general election, where he was replaced by David Mackintosh. Wayne Bontoft Northampton MP Brian Binley to stand down at next General Election Northampton Chronicle, 22 July 2013, accessed 11 May 2015. BBC News Northampton South, accessed 11 May 2015.
Binley has gone on to work for lobbying firm Sovereign Strategy, joining as its senior counsel in September 2015.
==External resources==
*Holly Watt, Claire Newell and Ben Bryant, Brian Binley MP: 'We have to be careful, politicians scrounge all the time, The Telegraph, 10:23PM GMT 06 Nov 2013
==Contact==
====Constituency====
*Address: Northampton South Conservative Association, White Lodge, 42 Billing Road, Northampton, NN1 5DA
*Telephone: 01604 633414
*Fax: 01604 250252
*Email: nsca@devlinfisher.co.uk
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Brian Cattell

Brian Cattell works for lobbying and PR firm PSA Communications. 
==Background==
According to his biography:
:Brian Cattell has over 15 years of experience in financial public relations and the media. His experience includes profile raising campaigns for unlisted companies, financial calendar support, transaction work on M&A and IPO deals, international media relations as well as crisis and internal communications. Brian was previously Head of the Emerging Markets practice at leading City PR firms Maitland and Finsbury where he advised a mixture of international clients and blue chip corporates, including HSBC, Rio Tinto, ArcelorMittal and Old Mutual. He previously worked as a journalist across a number of markets in Central and Eastern Europe, including as business editor of the Prague Post, and as senior correspondent for US financial publication, The Deal. Brian also has political experience as a former Chairman of leading centre right think tank The Bow Group and as a parliamentary general election candidate. He holds a degree from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and speaks Russian, Czech, French and German. Who we are, PSA Communications website, undated accessed 10 October 2013 
==Affiliations==
*Bow Group - former chairman
==Contact, Resources and Notes==
===Contact===
===Resources===
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Brian Count

The following is Brian Count's biography from the Ceres Power website:
:He joined the Central Electricity Generation Board (CEGB) in 1974 and rose to become Director of Power Generation in National Power, the largest UK generating company formed on privatisation of the industry.
:In 2000 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Innogy plc, the public company comprising National Power’s UK business. He transformed the company from a generator to an integrated energy business and the acquisition by RWE of Innogy plc in 2003 delivered a substantial return to shareholders.
:Brian became Chief Executive of RWE Trading, based in Essen, Germany where he remained until he retired from RWE in 2005. In this role he grew the European energy trading business to become a commercial hub of the RWE group.
:He is currently a non-executive director of Eskom, Africa's largest coal and nuclear company accused of making electricity unaffordable for black South Africans during apartheid, and continually accused of price differentiation which favours industry and the rich.See Corporate watch profile on Eskom "Eskom Profile" accessed 11/04/09 According to the Ceres Power directors page he is; Chairman of Progressive Energy, a company that is working with Centrica to develop a clean coal fired power station in the UK; and is also a member of the UK Industrial Development Advisory Board of the DTI. He has extensive experience of international energy utilities and has been involved with governments and regulatory matters in both the UK and Europe.
:Brian is non-executive Chairman of Ceres Power after having joined the company as a non-executive director in March 2007. Brian sits on the Audit, Remuneration and Nomination and Governance Committees.Ceres Power, "Ceres Power Directors page" Accessed 11/04/09
He was also founding chair of the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy and Director of DVW Group asset management and hedging.
He sits on the BERR Energy and Climate Security Panel formed following the publication of the Energy white paper: meeting the energy challenge in May 2007.
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Brian Cubbon

Sir Brian Cubbon, senior British civil servant, was Permanent Under Secretary of State of the Northern Ireland Office 1976-1979 and of the Home Office 1979-1988. 
Sir Brian was injured in the killing by the IRA of the British Ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, in 1976. The car in which the party was travelling was hit by a bomb concealed in a culvert under the road. Sir Brian's Private Secretary, Judith Cooke was also killed, and the driver, Brian O'Driscoll, was also injured.
Cubbon co-founded intelligence business consultancy Hakluyt & Company Ltd, in 1995 with several other former secret service officials.
==Affiliations==
*Hakluyt
*Press Complaints Commission Commissioner, 1995-2002
*Member of the Charter Compliance Panel of the Press Complaints Commission 2004- Press Complaints Commission
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Brian Dailey

Brian Dailey is a lobbyist. He is an employee of Lockheed Martin with the title Vice President of Washington Operations. The company website says, "Dailey will strategically direct the Corporation's liaison with Congress, the Pentagon, the executive branch and all federal offices and agencies in the Washington, D.C, area."
Lockheed Martin press release, lockheedmartin.com, July 16, 1999. In a review of Washington D.C.-based lobbyists The Hill wrote "With some of the top defense programs at stake, Dailey and his team will be hard at work this year.""Best in the Business", The Hill, April 24, 2007.
==Affiliations==
*Working Group on Intelligence Reform
==References==
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Brian Donaldson

:The British Government has nominated Mr Brian Donaldson as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Madagascar, with residence at Antananarivo. The Malagasy Government has given its agreement to this nomination. Mr Donaldson is expected to take up his appointment in October 2002.
==CURRICULUM VITAE==
Full Name: Brian Donaldson Date of Birth: 6 April 1946 Marital Status: Married (Elizabeth) Children: 3 sons (1971), (1973), (1979)
*1999-2002 WINDHOEK (High Commissioner) 
*1997-1998 FCO (Deputy Head of Information Department) 
*1996-1997 FCO (Personnel Management Department) 
*1992-1996 DHAKA (First Secretary) 
*1989-1992 YAOUNDE (Deputy Head of Mission) 
*1985-1989 PORT LOUIS (Second, later First Secretary) 
*1983-1985 FCO (Assistant Private Secretary, Minister of State's Office) 
*1982-1983 FCO (Trade Relations and Export Department) 
*1979-1982 LUXEMBOURG (Vice Consul) 
*1975-1979 LAGOS (Entry Clearance Officer) 
*1974-1975 FCO (Communications Operations Department) 
*1971-1974 LA PAZ (Archivist) 
*1968-1971 ALGIERS (Administration Officer) 
*1965-1968 FCO (Archives Department) 
*1965 Entered FCOHermes Database April 10, 2002 Foreign And Commonwealth Office - Change Of Ambassador To The Republic Of Madagascar - Ministerial Engagements Change Of Ambassador To The Republic Of Madagascar
==Notes==
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Brian Donohoe

Brian Donohoe was the Labour Party member of Parliament (MP) for Central Ayrshire from 1992 to 2015.
Donohoe lost his seat in the 2015 general election to the Scottish National Party's Philippa Whitford by 13,589 votes. BBC News Ayrshire Central, accessed 14 May 2015.
==Activities==
*Overseas visits
Name of donor: Cayman Islands Government Address of donor: Government Administration Building, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): travel, accommodation and other costs; £8,600 Destination of visit: Grand Cayman Date of visit: 30 March-6 April 2012 Purpose of visit: to attend events and meetings covering a wide range of topics with the Government and other interested parties (Registered 12 April 2012)
==Affiliations==
*All Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas‎
==Notes==
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Brian Faulkner

Brian Faulkner (1921-1977) was the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, 1971-72, and Chief Executive of the short-lived power-sharing administration of 1974. He was created a life peer as Lord Faulkner of Downpatrick in 1977.W.D. Flackes & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, pp.125-126.
==External Resources==
*Northern Ireland Prime Minister Implicated in McGurk’s Bar Cover-Up, McGurks Bar Massacre campaign, 4 December 2010.
==Notes==
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Brian Fitzsimons

John Charles Brian Fitzimons was the former head of the RUC Special Branch in Northern Ireland. He was killed in the Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash in 1994.Liam Clarke, Key evidence on FRU barred, Sunday Times, 12 September 2004.
Sally Weale and Owen Boycott, CHINOOK DISASTER: COUNTING THE COST OF THE SENIOR FIGURES IN BATTLE AGAINST TERRORISM, Guardian, 4 June 1994.
Fitzsimons joined the RUC in 1963.Sally Weale and Owen Boycott, CHINOOK DISASTER: COUNTING THE COST OF THE SENIOR FIGURES IN BATTLE AGAINST TERRORISM, Guardian, 4 June 1994. 
He was involved undercover work which led to the arrest of the Brighton bomber, Patrick Magee, and ahead of the killing of three IRA members in Gibraltar in 1988.Sally Weale and Owen Boycott, CHINOOK DISASTER: COUNTING THE COST OF THE SENIOR FIGURES IN BATTLE AGAINST TERRORISM, Guardian, 4 June 1994.
He was appointed head of Special Branch in December 1989 at the age of 48 . According to the Guardian, "he was the central strategist in the fight against terrorism."Sally Weale and Owen Boycott, CHINOOK DISASTER: COUNTING THE COST OF THE SENIOR FIGURES IN BATTLE AGAINST TERRORISM, Guardian, 4 June 1994.
In the months prior to his death, rumours had been circulating in Belfast that he would be leaving the RUC that summer to take up a post as head of security for a Northern Ireland banking institution.Sally Weale and Owen Boycott, CHINOOK DISASTER: COUNTING THE COST OF THE SENIOR FIGURES IN BATTLE AGAINST TERRORISM, Guardian, 4 June 1994.
==External Resources==
*David McKittrick, New McGuinness would have left old foe amazed, Independent, 24 September 2011.
*Liam Clarke, Dublin's links with IRA shrouded in ambiguity, Belfast Telegraph, 10 February 2012.
*Gerard Cunningham, Ex detective claims one in four IRA members sold information to British, faduda.net, 20 June 2012.
*Tim O'Brien, Ex-garda says he had not known of murders, Irish Times, 21 June 2012.
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Brian Flanagan

Brian Flanagan joined the Financial Services Authority Board in January 2007. He was formerly a Vice President at Mars Inc. and is also a Non-executive Director of William Morrison Supermarkets Plc, Jet Environmental and Personal Navigation Systems Limited.
Brian graduated from university with a computer science degree and initially worked for North West Electricity Board. He then joined Mars Inc in 1979 and held a variety of positions, including Global Commercial Director and Vice President Business Transformation before leaving in 2005.
== Notes ==
# The Financial Services Authority website, http://www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/about/index.shtml. Last viewed 01.02.07
Brian Francois

Brian Francois the chairman of the Friends of the Metropolitan Police Heritage Charity (FOMPHC). He served for 30 years in the Metropolitan Police, and led Operation Hatton monitoring the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) until his retirement in 1997.The Metropolitan Police, Hearings in the Independent Inquiry into Child Abuse, Operation "Winter Key], 20 December 2016 and Untitled report of hearing, signed by DC Kathleen Drummond, 15 March 2017. Also see, research by @ciabaudo presented in a Twitter thread, April 2019. (accessed July 2019) 
He is also the (half-)brother of Mark Francois, the Conservative Party MP for Rayleigh and Wickford since 2010.
==Notes==
Brian G Wallace

Brian G Wallace was appointed to the Scottish & Newcastle board in 2006, he also enjoys the position of Senior Independent Non-Executive Director at Hays plc. Shortly before joining S&N Wallace was deputy group chief executive (2000 - 2006) and Group Finance Director (1995 -2006), Hilton Group plc. Other companies he has worked for include Geest plc where he was group finance director and APV where he was group controller. 
 S&N Company Web Site News 21st December 2006 Accessed April 2007 
==References==
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Brian Geoghegan

'Brian Geoghegan, the husband of outgoing Health Minister Mary Harney, is the Chairman of PR firm MRPA KINMAN, which acts on behalf of the new Health Information and Quality Authority'.HIQA reacts to controversy ove, accessed 15 May 2008
:Brian Geoghegan is former Director of Economic Affairs at IBEC and former Chairman of FAS, the State employment agency. He has been one of the leading figures in Irish business for over two decades. In his role at IBEC he played a key role in representing Irish business with policy makers in Ireland and internationally. He was a central figure in the negotiation of successive National Partnership agreements between the Government and the Social Partners and he was one of the architects of the policy changes which were critical to Ireland's recent economic transformation.http://www.mrpakinman.ie/about_brian.asp, accessed 16 May 2008
==Notes==
Brian Goodwin

Brian Carey Goodwin (1931) is a recognized mathematician and a biologist born in Montreal, Canada. He studied at McGill University and then emigrated to the UK where he became full professor at the Open University until retirement in 1992. He is a key founder of a branch of mathematical biology known as theoretical biology that focuses on the methods of mathematics and physics to understand processes in biology. His expertise is in morphogenesis and evolution, where he has developed a critical evaluation of the role of natural selection. He is an advocate of a biology explained from the perspective of complex systems. Currently he teaches at the Schumacher College in Devon, UK. Goodwin has advocated a unification of science and the humanities. He is a founding member of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico.
==Affiliations==
*International Futures Forum
== Books ==
* Temporal Organization in Cells
* Analytical Physiology
* How the Leopard Changed its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity
* Form and Transformation: Generative and Relational Principles in Biology
* Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology
* Towards a Theoretical Biology
==Scientific papers==
*Miramontes O, Solé RV, Goodwin BC. Neural networks as sources of chaotic motor activity in ants and how complexity develops at the social scale. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIFURCATION AND CHAOS 11 (6): 1655-1664 JUN 2001.
*Goodwin BC. The life of form. Emergent patterns of morphological transformation. COMPTES RENDUS DE L ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES SERIE III-SCIENCES DE LA VIE-LIFE SCIENCES 323 (1): 15-21 JAN 2000
*Goodwin BC. Temporal organization and disorganization in organisms. CHRONOBIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 14 (5): 531-536 1997
*Berrill NJ, Goodwin BC. The life of form emergent patterns of morphological transformation. RIVISTA DI BIOLOGIA-BIOLOGY FORUM 89 (3): 373-388 SEP-DEC 1996
*Solé, R., O. Miramontes and BC Goodwin. Collective Oscillations and Chaos in the Dynamics of Ant Societies. J. THEOR BIOL 161:343 (1993)
*Miramontes, O., R. Solé and BC Goodwin, Collective Behaviour of Random-Activated Mobile Cellular Automata. PHYSICA D 63: 145-160 (1993)
==External links==
* A New Science of Qualities: a Talk With Brian Goodwin 
* An interview with Professor Brian Goodwin
==Notes==
Brian Griffiths

Brian Griffiths, Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach (born 27 December 1941) has been an international advisor and vice-chairman at Goldman Sachs since 1991. He was head of Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit from 1985 to 1990.
He joined the House of Lords as a Conservative peer on the 5 February 1991. Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach Parliament.UK, accessed 19 December 2014 
==Education and career==
Griffiths attended Dynevor Grammar School in Swansea and then took an undergraudate degree and a Masters in economics at the London School of Economics. 'OF FFORESTFACH', Who's Who 2009, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008, accessed 2 Nov 2009 He was a assistant lecturer at the London School of Economics from 1965 to 1968, and a lecturer from 1968 to 1976. In 1977 he moved to City University where he was professor of banking and international finance until 1985. During this time he was director of the Centre for Banking and International Finance (1977-82) and dean of the University's Business School. Debrett's People of Today, The Rt Hon Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach, [Accessed 2 November 2009]
He was a director of the Bank of England from 1984 to 1986 and from 1985 to 1990 was head of Thatcher's Policy Unit. In 1991 he was made Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach. That year he also joined Goldman Sachs as an international advisor and was appointed chairman of the right-wing think-tank the Centre for Policy Studies - a position he held until 2000.
Debrett's People of Today, The Rt Hon Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach, [Accessed 2 November 2009] He was also appointed a non-executive director of Times Newspapers and subsequently took on directorships at a number of companies.
In October 2009 Griffiths caused public anger by saying that, in regard to excessive banking bonuses, the British public should "tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity for all". Caroline Binham, Goldman Sachs’s Griffiths Says Inequality Helps All (Update1), Bloomberg, 21 October 2009 11:20 EDT, accessed 10 March 2011 Andrew Clark, Goldman Sachs breaks record with $16.7bn bonus pot, # guardian.co.uk, Thursday 15 October 2009, accessed 10 March 2011. 
==Affiliations==
Garrick Club, member Debrett's People of Today, The Rt Hon Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach, [Accessed 2 November 2009] | Centre for Policy Studies, chairman 1991-2000 | David Hume Institute, Advisory council 1996Nick Kuenssberg and Gillian Lomas (Eds) The David Hume Institute: The First Decade, Edinburgh: The David Hume Institute, 1996. | Centre for Social Justice, Advisory Council CSJ, Advisory Board, accessed 13 February 2010
==External Links==
*SpinWatch, Doing God’s Work: How Goldman Sachs Rigs the Game - SpinWatch investigation detailing Goldman Sachs’ secret lobbying activities in the UK and Brussels and links to politicians. March 2011.
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