Liz worked for COI’s * office in Cambridge for 14 years where she managed press and publicity campaigns in the East of England for a range of Whitehall departments and agencies, including Cabinet Office, the Prime Minister’s Office, Department of Health, Home Office and English Heritage.

For UK Trade & Investment’s office in Cambridge, she created a regional B2B advertising campaign as well as negotiating and writing feature articles in the East Anglian Daily Times, Cambridge News and Business Weekly. She has also written blogs, tweets and other publicity materials.

She completed a year-long secondment to the Government Office for the East of England where she set up a new communications department at its Cambridge HQ, developed excellent working relationships with partners and stakeholders in and around the Cambridge area, led a team of four and managed a budget of £80,000. For two years she was press officer to the Regional Minister for the East of England.

Before joining COI, Liz worked for the leading advertising and PR agencies in Cambridge for a range of companies across all sectors – technology, bio-tech and professional services including surveyors, accountants and solicitors – many of which were based on the science and innovation parks in and around the city of Cambridge. Larger international clients included Philips, Shell and Ciba Geigy.

She began her career in London where she worked in advertising, design and PR and London. She has written a regular marketing column for ‘Computing’ and lectured in advertising and marketing at Kingston University’s School of Business.

Liz has a BA Honours Degree in Business Studies and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

*Central Office of Information