Speakers

Nick Andrews

Vice Chairman, Fleishman Hillard - Air Transport Action Group

Nick Andrews has been a corporate communications and public affairs consultant for eighteen years, the last twelve of which have been spent in Brussels. He has a speciality in crisis management; change management and positioning and has done extensive corporate communications work across Europe. Mr Andrews also brings valuable experience in managing large, multi-market communications programmes across both western and central and Eastern Europe.

Mr Andrews joined Fleishman-Hillard in 2005 as Vice-Chairman of the Brussels office. Since then he has worked on issues and crisis management, internal communications, and positioning assignments across a wide range of sectors. These include the aviation, food, healthcare, packaging, communications, biotech and professional services sectors. Mr Andrews is also Chair of both the European Internal Communications and Corporate Reputation Management practices.

Prior to joining Fleishman-Hillard, Mr Andrews was the Chief Executive Officer of Gavin Anderson in Brussels, as well as head of European Public Affairs and Corporate Communications.

In Brussels, Mr Andrews has also worked for APCO Europe (where he was the Managing Director, Strategic Communications - Europe) for five years and for The Rowland Company as a Director.

In the UK, Mr Andrews was a founding member of Smythe Dorward Lambert, the leading internal communications and change management consultancy, and began his career in corporate finance for Morgan Stanley.

Mr Andrews holds an MA in Modern History from Oxford University (at which he was a scholar) and speaks English and French.