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Simon Moss

Air Commodore Simon Moss is a former senior civil servant at the British Ministry of Defence (MOD), now working in the private sector for missiles developer MBDA where he is head of 'portfolio capability development'. 
Moss was a former director of helicopters at the Defence Equipment and Support, the MOD's procurement agency. He was a speaker in that capacity at the London arms fair Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) 2015.Aerospace a prominent component of DSEI 2015, Military Systems & Technology, accessed 13 September 2017 
MBDA's shareholders are BAE Systems, Airbus and Leonardo-Finmeccanica. The company produces the deadly Brimstone air-launched ground attack missile, which has been sold to Saudi Arabia and used over Yemen. 
MBDA currently is leading a consortium to develop a high-energy laser weapon for use on both land and sea under a £30M contract for the MoD. The UK Dragonfire group consortium includes MBDA, QinetiQ and Leonardo-Finmeccanica. UK Dragonfire consortium to develop high energy laser weapon, The Engineer, 21 September 2016 , accessed 13 September 2017 
==External resources==
*Campaign Against the Arms Trade, Simon Moss, Political Influence Database
==Notes==
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Simon Nayyar

Simon Nayyar is a former lobbyist at some of the top UK agencies such as Westminster Strategy, Citigate Public Affairs, Edelman and Newgate Communications and was a former general election candidate for the Conservative Party in the 2010 and 2015 general elections.
Nayyar is now managing director of his own corporate and financial PR and lobbying agency Acuitas Communications, which he set up with business partner Samantha Seewoosurrun. David Singleton, Nayyar resurfaces with Acuitas Comms, PublicAffairs, 6 September 2016, accessed 17 November 2016. 
==Career==
Nayyar starter his career working for Conservative MP Keith Speed.
His first lobbying role was at Westminster Strategy, then Citigate Public Affairs. In 2006 he moved to Edelman but 18 months later moved to CDR Public Policy - a company under the Citigate Public Affairs umbrella.
He moved to Newgate Communications in 2011 as managing partner and the firm's top lobbyist. David Singleton Sharp suits and plans to blaze a trail in lobbying Public Affairs News, 1 March 2013, accessed 1 October 2014 
===Political aspirations===
Nayyar left Newgate in April 2015 to concentrate on his bid to be selected as an MP in the 2015 general election in the Feltham and Heston seat, aiming to overturn the 6000 majority achieved by Labour’s Seema Malhotra in 2010. Reports also linked Nayyar's departure to PPS Group's merger with Newgate Communications. David Singleton Nayyar in shock exit from Newgate Public Affairs News, 17 April 2015, accessed 17 April 2015. Nayyar failed in his bid to become the MP for Feltham and Heston with Malthotra winning by a majority of 11,463. BBC News Feltham and Helston, accessed 22 May 2015. 
Nayyar also previously ran for parliament in the 2010 election. Despite Lee Martin being preferred to stand for Sunderland Central and missing out in his bid to become the Nottingham South candidate, Nayyar won't quit bid for Tory seat PR Week, 1 August 2007, 1 October 2014 Nayyar came third in Hackney South and Shoreditch as Labour held what is traditionally a safe seat for them. Simon Nayyar Guardian, accessed 17 April 2015.
==Education==
*University of York, 1985-1988. Simon Nayyar Linkedin undated, accessed 1 October 2014 
==Affiliations==
*Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a City liveryman. Our People Newgatecomms, undated, accessed 1 October 2014 
*Former board member of Conservative Friends of India
*Gina Miller, True and Fair Campaign
==Resources==
See: Fracking lobbying firms
*Melissa Jones and Andy Rowell, Access all areas: Westminster's (vast) fracking lobby exposed, 29 April 2015.
==Notes==
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Simon Palley

Simon Palley is a senior adviser to Towerbrook, a New-York based private equity firm. 
He is also a non-executive director of Land Securities. 'Simon Palley Towerbrook profile', Towerbrook, accessed 19 May 2016 
==Donations==
Recorded by the Electoral Commission:
Date
Name of donor
Amount
Donated to 
 
14/04/2015 
Mr Simon Palley
£15,000.00
Conservative and Unionist Party 
 
 
18/04/2016 
Mr Simon Palley
£30,000.00 
Britain Stronger in Europe 
 
Electoral Commission, Simon Palley Donation Search, accessed 21 June 2016
==Notes==
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Simon Pearson

Simon Pearson is Chief Night Editor at The Times.LinkedIn Simon Pearson, accessed 14 August 2013
==Education==
Pearson attended Sherwood Street Junior School, Warsop, Nottinghamshire (1964-1967) and Abbotsholme School, Staffordshire (1967 – 1975). Pearson lives 'with his wife, Fiona, who also works for The Times, and their three sons, in south London.'Hodder Simon Pearson, accessed 14 august 2013
==Career==
According to a biographical note:
:His journalistic career has taken him from regional newspapers in England, through Hong Kong, China, Australia and the United States, to senior positions in Fleet Street. He has worked for the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times and The Times, which he first joined in 1986. His interest in military history was stimulated by his father, who served with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
*Chief Night Editor The Times March 1999 – Present 
*Executive Editor, The Times, March 1999 – July 2005 
*Associate Night Editor, The Daily Telegraph August 1998 – March 1999 
==Views on science communication==
Pearson was among those consulted by the Science and the Media Expert Group, commissioned by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills:
:One concern that was raised repeatedly by commentators on science journalism including academics and even one journal editor was the domination of the news agenda by stories from the weekly science and medical journals... Some linked this trend to the absence of any tradition of investigative journalism within science writing and others argued that science journalists tend to ‘go native’ and refrain from asking scientists the really tough questions. An editorial in Nature reflected the views of many commentators that science journalism needs to ‘scrutinise as well as regurgitate if it is to give science its trust'. There was some evidence that science journalists and editors are conscious of this charge. Simon Pearson, night editor of The Times, told the group that The Times are now more interested in breaking their own original stories than slavishly following what’s in the journals.Science and the Media Expert Group Science and the Media: Securing the Future January 2010
==Affiliations==
*Science Media Centre, member of the board 2004 - 2011; member of the advisory committee 2011-present
*Young Journalists Academy, Pearson has taken part in their events such as on 2 August 2011.Photo here: Flickr Simon Pearson, Times Chief Night Editor Young Journalists photostream The Times is a media sponsor of YJA an initiative set up by Spiked, part of the LM network.
==Notes==
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Simon Plosker

Simon Plosker is the managing editor for NGO Monitor, an online project of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), which is dedicated to criticism of respected NGOs (such as Amnesty International) and is strongly linked to Israeli government and military. Kahlen, Y.& Foxxhon, E. (2005) 'NGO Monitor Should Not Be Taken Seriously' cited on 25th April, 2006 In 2003-04, he served on the Jewish and Governmental Organizations Desk
at the IDF Spokesperson's Unit.Simon Plosker, Branchout, accessed 23 November 2012.
As well as being Senior Editor of HonestReporting he also works for BICOM.BICOM cited on 23rd April, 2006 Since studying a Masters at the London School of Economics specialising in the Israel/Palestine conflict, he was former public affairs officer for the Board of Deputies of British Jews and British Aliyah Movement co-ordinator. bod.org.uk cited on 25th April, 2006
==References==
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Simon Pottinger

Simon Pottinger is a former Trotskyite, now a member of Middlesbrough and East Cleveland Labour Party. Labour Friends of Iraq The Murder of Hadi Saleh - Why Are You Silent? An Open Letter To The Leaders of the Stop The War Coalition
==Affiliations==
*Engage
*Unite Against Terror
*Euston Manifesto -- signatory (as representative of Unite Against Terror)
*Labour Friends of Iraq
==References==
Simon Reeve

Simon Reeve is a travel journalist and an author of several books on terrorism. Reeve's book The New Jackals published in 1998 was the first in the world on bin Laden and al Qaeda.
==Books==
*Simon Reeve, One day in September: the full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and the Israeli revenge operation "Wrath of God" (New York: Arcade, 2000) (ISBN: 1559705477 9781559705479; 1559706031; 9781559706032)
*Simon Reeve, The new jackals : Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden and the future of terrorism (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999) (ISBN: 1555534074; 9781555534073)
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Simon Richard Marks

Simon Richard Marks, 3rd Baron Marks of Broughton was born on 3 May 1950. He is the son of Michael Marks, 2nd Baron Marks of Broughton and Ann Catherine Pinto. He married Marion Norton, daughter of Peter F. Norton, on 9 November 1982. He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, EnglandG. He succeeded as the 3rd Baron Marks of Broughton, of Sunningdale, co. Berks [U.K., 1961] on 9 September 1998.
Children of Simon Richard Marks, 3rd Baron Marks of Broughton and Marion Norton
*Hon. Miriam Ann Marks b. 1983
*Hon. Susannah Elizabeth Marks b. 1986
*Hon. Michael Marks b. 13 May 1989
*Hon. Rebecca Marks b. 26 Jan 1997
==Company directorships==
*Persimmon Books Limited (01597128), Company status: Dissolved. Appointed before 31 December 1991
*Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (01109384) Appointed on 15 December 1998, Resigned on 31 July 2012
==Charty roles==
*In 1971 Simon Marks founded the Simon Richard Marks Trust. In 2019, the Trust was renamed as the Marks Family Charitable Trust.
*A M Charitable Trust - Trustee
==Notes==
Simon Singh

[[File:Simon Singh TAM London 2009.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Simon Singh speaking at TAM London October 2009, 3 October 2009.
Source credit: Gaius Cornelius under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.]]
Singh describes himself as 'an author, journalist and TV producer, specialising in science and mathematics, the only two subjects I have the faintest clue about.' 
Simon Singh Homepage, accessed 15 August 2013
==Background and education==
According to his own account:
:My parents emigrated from the Punjab in India to Britain in 1950. I grew up in Wellington, Somerset, and then went to Imperial College London, where I studied physics, before completing a PhD in particle physics at Cambridge University and at CERN, Geneva. Simon Singh Boring biography, accessed 15 august 2013
==Career==
In 1990 Singh joined the BBC’s Science Department, 'where I was a producer and director in programmes such as Tomorrow’s World and Horizon.' 
==Affiliations==
*CASE
*Sense About Science
*Science Media Centre Board 2002-2012; Advisory committee 2012-present.
*Libel Reform Campaign (run by Index on Censorship, English PEN and Sense About Science)
==Contact==
:Website: simonsingh.net
:Twitter: @SLSingh
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Simon Summers

Simon Summers worked in the House of Lords and European Commission before he moved to the European Newspaper Publishers Association (ENPA) as European Policy Advisor and then to Human Dynamics, an Austrian PR company.
==Background==
On 8th October 2007, Simon Summers was appointed European Policy Advisor at the European Newspaper Publishers Association (ENPA). Prior to this Mr Summers worked as a central European Affairs Analyst at the European Commission. He previously worked in DG Education in Culture and before that, as a Sub-Committee Researcher at the House of Lords (UK Parliament).European Agenda, "Simon Summers joins ENPA as European Policy Advisor," 01 October 2007, Agenda Weekly, accessed 06 March 2010.
In June 2009, Summers has joined Human Dynamics, an Austrian public affairs consultancy based in Vienna and specialising in economic development, institution building and good governance, as Business Development Manager. European Agenda, "Summers leaves the ENPA for Human Dynamics," 03 June 2009, Agenda Weekly, accessed 06 March 2010.
Summers holds an MA degree in European Studies from the Jagiellonian University, Poland.
==Affiliations==
*Human Dynamics, Business Development Manager (2009- )
*European Newspaper Publishers‘ Association, European Policy Advisor (2007-2009)
*European Commission, Central European Affairs Analyst
*UK Parliament, House of Lords, Sub-Committee Researcher
==Resources==
*European Agenda, "Simon Summers joins ENPA as European Policy Advisor," 01 October 2007, Agenda Weekly, accessed 06 March 2010.
*European Agenda, "Summers leaves the ENPA for Human Dynamics," 03 June 2009, Agenda Weekly, accessed 06 March 2010.
==Notes==
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Simon Toole

Simon Toole is a retired senior UK civil servant. His last role after a 33-year career working in government was as head of exploration, licensing and development at the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA). 
==Biography==
At the OGA Toole was:
:responsible for oil and gas licensing, exploration and development, and methane and CO2 storage. He previously had responsibility for the department’s regulation of the UK’s offshore oil and gas environmental regime and initiated the developments made to that regime in the late 1990s. Simon has worked in the Government energy departments since 1983 having worked first as a wireline engineer in the UK and Middle East. He holds a BSc in Geophysical Science and an MSc in Petroleum Engineering. During this time he has been seconded to Amoco (Operations) and Shell (Gas) and has worked on all aspects of regulation of the oil and gas industry. Simon Toole, Director Licensing and Legal, www.gov.uk, accessed 12 August 2015 
He was previously head of Oil & Gas Licensing, Exploration & Development at DECC.
==Attended government fracking dinner==
In his previous role at DECC Toole attended a dinner on 9 May 2013 hosted by senior civil servants Jeremy Heywood and Stephen Lovegrove, permanent secretary of DECC, which was organised by the Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil, DECC.
The purpose was 'to discuss the issues relating to the development of unconventional gas and oil in Lancashire and nationally'. The dinner was held at the Dickson Room, Preston Marriott, Broughton. Other confirmed attendees included:
*Ken Cronin – Chief Executive, UK Onshore Operators Group (UKOOG)
*Francis Egan – CEO, Cuadrilla Resources
*Duarte Figueira – Head, Office of Unconventional Gas & Oil, DECC
*Peter Forsyth – Director, Strategy & Investment, Carillion
*Tony Grayling – Head of Environment Policy, Environment Agency
*Phil Halsall – CEO, Lancashire County Council
*Calum MacLean – Chairman, Ineos O&P Europe
 Email from: Figueira Duarte (Energy Development), Sent: 03 May 2013 13:43, Subject: Dinner Invitation - Thursday 9th May 
==Notes==
==Secondments==
*Shell (Gas)
*Amoco (Operations)
==Notes==
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Simon Townsend

Simon Townsend is the CEO of Enterprise Inns.
==Career==
Townsend joined pub company Enterprise Inns in 1999, was appointed to the board in 2000 and appointed CEO in 2014.
He has previously worked at Whitbread PLC, Allied Domecq PLC, Rank Group plc and Marston, Thompson & Evershed PLC. Enterprise Inns Our directors, accessed 7 April 2015.
==Letter to the Telegraph==
On 1 April 2015 Townsend was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 7 April 2015.
==Affiliations==
*British Beer and Pub Association, vice chairman
==Notes==
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Simon Virley

Simon Virley was director general for 'energy markets and infrastructure group' in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), leading the UK government’s work on on renewables, nuclear, oil and gas, shale, carbon capture and storage, and UK energy security issues from September 2009 until January 2015. 
In a classic case of the revolving door between politics and business, Virley left the civil service to take up the role of chair of energy and natural resources at KPMG UK in February 2015. He had previously worked for the Big Four firm on secondment from 2005-08. 
==Reformer==
According to KPMG, Virley led the biggest reforms to the UK energy market since privatisation. KPMG strengthens Energy practice with the appointment of Simon Virley from DECC, KPMG website, 2015 news release dated 2 February 2015, accessed 12 August 2015 
==Background==
Virley is an economist by training and spent most of the 1990s at HM Treasury, including leading the work on ‘green’ taxes. Simon Virley, DECC website, accessed 10 September 2012 
Between 2000-03 he was private secretary to Tony Blair while he was prime minister, and dealt with economic affairs. He then lead the cross-departmental work on better regulation as director of the Better Regulation Executive (2003-05), before a secondment at KPMG where he was director of corporate finance, advising on the financing of energy and other major infrastructure projects. 
He was also a temporary joint chair of the Electricity Strategy Network Group.
He was chief executive of the Office for Renewable Energy Deployment (ORED) and acting director general for the National Climate Change & Consumer Support Group within DECC. 
==Hospitality received==
*EirGrid Board - lunch 15/05/2013
==Affiliations==
*KPMG - secondment to this Big Four firm whilst employed by HM Treasury 2005-08
==Awards==
*Awarded a CB (Companion of the Bath) in the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours for ‘Services to UK energy supply and energy security’. 
==Notes==
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Simon Walsh

Simon Walsh was appointed Head of Group Strategy for HBOS Australia in July 2004.
He was previously the Director of Group Strategy at BankWest, where he also held several other senior executive positions including Head of Organisation Development, Director of Strategic Projects and Director of Value Improvement.
Walsh has a management consulting background with several firms in Australia, where he worked as a strategy consultant across a number of industries including Financial Services, Mining, Telecommunications, Utilities and Government. Simon commenced his professional career with Telstra, where he held a variety of Engineering, Logistics, IT and Executive roles.
He is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
== Notes ==
# HBOS Australia Website Executive Profiles, accessed 23/03/07
Simon Webley

Simon Webley (born 10 August 1932) has been the Research Director of the Institute for Business Ethics since 1998 and from 1969-98, he was director of the British-North American Research Association and UK director of the British-North America Committee. He is a trustee of the conservative Institute for Policy Research which is a vehicle for funding Conservative movement think tanks. 
Webley studies economics and political science at Trinity College, Dublin and undertook National Service in the RAF. He then joined Reed International (now Reed Elsevier) as a research economist in 1959. Webley is a member of the IFES Finance Committee, a trustee of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics and the Armonia (UK) Trust. He is vice chairman of the St. Peter's, Ditton PCC.Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics Simon Webley, accessed 6 May 2011
==Taxpayers Alliance==
On the 12th May 2010 Webley (listed as from the Institute for Policy Research) attended a Taxpayers' Alliance a roundtable meeting (The Taxpayers' Alliance Roundtable) in order to discuss 'the election and its aftermath'.Taxpayers Alliance Rountable, leaked taxpayers alliance guest list is a whos who of the conservative right, Political Scrapbook, 18-May-2010, Accessed 31-March-2011 The attendance list was a veritable who's who of the Conservative movement.
==Publications==
*Making Business Ethics Work (2006) 
*Corporate Use of Codes of Ethics (2005). 
*1993, Interfaith Declaration on International Business Ethics.
==Notes==
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Simon Whale

Simon Whale is the managing director of Luther Pendragon.
==Career==
Whale first joined The Russell Partnership between 1986 as an assistant, eventually rising to managing director and finally taking a seat on the board as a director, before leaving in 1997. 
In 1997 he joined Bell Pottinger Communications as a director, for 3 years Gidon Freeman Whale comes on board for Luther Pendragon PR Week, 21 July 2000, accessed 16 October 2014 .
In 2000 he was hired as managing director of Luther Pendragon, where he has overseen the purchases of Quintus Public Affairs Ltd Matt Cartmell Luther Pendragon makes redundancies following Quintus acquisition PR Week, 10 June 2000, accessed 16 October 2014 and Lucid Communication Lucid Communication joins forces with Luther Pendragon Source Wire, 31 July 2012, accessed 16 October 2014 .
 
He is also non-executive director and vice-chairman of PG Mutual Simon Whale Linkedin, accessed 16 October 2014 .
==Education==
*University of Sussex 1982 – 1985
==Notes==
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Simon Whitehead

Simon Whitehead is the managing director of energy at lobbying firm Hill and Knowlton Strategies.
He previously worked for College Hill.
==Views on shale gas in the UK==
Whitehead was a speaker at the Shale Gas UK conference in October 2013, where he was forthright about what he felt had gone wrong with frackers' pitch to the public:
:There needs to be an industry-wide, offensive campaign with a fresh new narrative giving more of a brand feel to shale gas developments. Fracking needs a re-brand, perhaps with a ‘kitemark’ for safe developers.”
:Cuadrilla has over-egged the issue. Their claims about gas in place against recoverable reserves are still confused and people don’t really know the answer.”
==Clients==
==Contact, Resources and Notes==
===Resources===
See: Fracking lobbying firms
*Melissa Jones and Andy Rowell, Access all areas: Westminster's (vast) fracking lobby exposed, 29 April 2015.
===Notes===
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