Sir Alan Parker

Chairman and Founder, Brunswick Group

Alan Parker is the chairman of Brunswick, the advisory firm he founded in 1987, which specialises in financial PR and lobbying. The impeccably connected Parker has been described as the ‘great conduit’ between Whitehall and the City, and Brunswick now has 23 offices in 14 countries around the world. The firm is regarded as a highly influential enigma: it doesn’t publish a client list, and Parker rarely grants interviews. Despite this, there’s no denying his network of contacts: both Gordon Brown and David Cameron attended his wedding, and Parker is godfather to one of Brown’s children, although prior to the 2015 election he wrote to the Telegraph expressing concerns about the impact of a Labour government on the economy. Parker was denied a place at Oxford because of his anti-establishment views and instead managed a rock band and worked on oil rigs upon leaving school. 

 

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