Stuart joined Hill & Knowlton late 2007 as Chairman of Corporate and Healthcare for the UK as well as joining the UK Executive Committee.

Stuart has twenty years experience in communications. In that time he has held senior positions within consultancies and in-house and has worked across many industries and in both the private and public sectors.

His experience of developing strategy spans a wide range of disciplines: change management programmes for organisations going through mergers, acquisitions, disposals and rebranding; crisis management and issues preparedness; organisational effectiveness audits; communications and marketing); issues-led and public affairs campaigns; managing stakeholder relations across a range of NGOs; and the alignment of internal communications with brand repositioning programmes.

Stuart is well published with a doctoral research degree from Oxford University (Christ Church) in physical chemistry. He lectures regularly on communications and has held advisory positions with the Institute of Directors, CAM Diploma (Examiner).