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Our Team
Stuart Roden
CHAIRMAN
Stuart has over thirty years’ experience at the most successful and influential financial institutions. He was Chairman of Lansdowne Partners, having previously founded and co-managed their Developed Markets Strategy since its inception in 2001.
Stuart started his career in the City in 1984, joining SG Warburg & Co. He worked at McKinsey in London from 1990 to 1994 and prior to joining Lansdowne in 2001, was a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers.
Olivia Thompson
DIRECTOR
Olivia joined Lewis Advisors from the International Affairs Unit in the Cabinet Office where she provided foreign policy advice, crisis response, and delivered international engagements for the Prime Minister.
During this time, Olivia was seconded to the Royal Household, working for His Majesty the King, when he was the Prince of Wales, on international engagement, his charitable interests, and Accession preparation.
Simon Lewis
MANAGING PARTNER
Simon has worked at the highest levels of business and politics throughout his career. He was the first Communications Secretary to the late Queen at Buckingham Palace was Official Spokesperson for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He was Director of Corporate Affairs at Vodafone, Centrica and NatWest. In 2010, he was the founding CEO of AFME, the trade group representing Europe’s wholesale banking industry.
Simon co-hosts a weekly podcast on BBC Sounds ‘ When it Hits the Fan’.
Isobel Merrimen
ASSOCIATE
Isobel joined Lewis Advisors from the Royal Horticultural Society, where she delivered proactive and reactive communications to print and broadcast journalists for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Prior to this she worked at The School Of Life, where she devised and executed the launch of a new digital communications campaign and managed their social media platforms.
She attended New College, Oxford University, where she received an academic scholarship.
Thomas Lewis
PARTNER
Thomas was a founding partner of WJL Partners which provides strategic communications support to some of the world’s largest private companies, including Klarna, Watershed Climate and Clover Health.
Prior to this, he worked at Finsbury, the global PR firm, for seven years, where he supported a range of FTSE 100 companies, including AstraZeneca, Glencore and Shell and worked on a number of major global M&A transactions including AstraZeneca-Pfizer Shell-BG and Glencore-Xstrata.
Rosario Grant-Diaz
ASSOCIATE
Rosario joined Lewis Advisors in September last year and works across a range of clients, providing strategic public relations and public affairs support. Her work includes litigation PR, crisis communications, and high-level stakeholder audit reports.
She graduated from the University of Bristol with an Honours degree in Law and was awarded an academic scholarship by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.
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