Adrian is Chief Executive of the London-based Pepper Media group of public relations companies and is a Director of opinion research company SRU.

He has advised some of the world’s most prominent companies, religious organisations, governments and statesmen. He has stood twice for the Westminster Parliament and played once in the Halford Hewitt.

He has seen the governance of the UK from every angle having worked in Parliament, party headquarters, Whitehall, Brussels, think tanks, the City and as an adviser on regulatory risk to companies. He has worked as an adviser to the Chinese and South African governments on economic reform, and for Her Majesty’s Government as a Special Adviser before joining Chime Communications plc in 1996. He set up his own consultancy Pepper Media in 2002.

Adrian is a Member of the Institute of Directors and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

Born in the West Midlands in 1969, Adrian attended Repton School and Worcester College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, chaired the University Conservative Association and played golf for the Oxford Divots.

Adrian has two children, who are being raised with British values to face a global future.