Jonathan Haslam
Jonathan Haslam was formerly Chief Press Secretary to then Prime Minister John Major and worked in No 10 for more than six years altogether. His twenty year Government career involved a wide range of Whitehall departments including the Department of Trade and Industry, Home Office, and the Department of Education and Employment, where he was David Blunkett’s first Director of Communications.
He was a member of the Scott Inquiry Unit at the Cabinet Office and was responsible for designing the Government’s communications response to the Arms to Iraq inquiry.
In the private sector he took the lead role in rebuilding the reputation of the London Metal Exchange following the Hamanaka copper fraud. He led the mission to explain the Jarvis plc turnaround story from near bankruptcy to the debt for equity exchange of 2005.
Jonathan is Managing Director of Haslamedia Ltd, a specialist communications consultancy dealing with complex financial, corporate and governmental affairs.
