Jonathan Rush

Jonathan Rush has more than 20 years' corporate and consumer PR experience. He works as a PR consultant, web content editor and writer, collaborating with other consultants on an ad hoc basis under the Rush Communication banner.

Recent and current PR clients include a food industry supplier, a government ministry, a house builder, an IT firm, various PR agencies, and the Small Business Research Trust, on whose behalf he administers the All Party Parliamentary Small Business Group, one of Westminster's largest.

Jonathan was formerly Communications Director (2000-2003) at the government's gas and electricity consumer watchdog, energywatch. As a board member he worked closely with the Chair and chief executive, while managing a team of 12 media relations, internal coms, event management, marketing communications, political advisers, and web designers/editors in five offices around the UK. He planned, launched and acted as a spokesperson for the organisation's first major campaign, which forced the industry to adopt a new code of practice governing doorstep selling.

Jonathan's career includes spells at some of the UK's largest and specialist niche agencies. At Good Relations he worked for NutraSweet, National Power, the Millennium Dome and AEA Technology. As a divisional director at The Communication Group his clients included The House Builders Federation, Business for Sterling, Hutchison Whampoa, London Luton Airport, Fairview New Homes, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and the Institution of Civil Engineers.

At financial PR agency, Positive Profile, Jonathan worked across a range of client accounts including fund managers Premier Asset Management and Atlantis; Reuters subsidiary, Instinet; Gerrard (the UK's largest private client stockbrokers); McGraw Hill; and personal finance magazine, Money Observer. The work mainly involved marketing funds under management to IFAs and City institutions, and media relations for IPOs.

He is a co-founder and part-time editor of ContingencyToday.com, a new (2007) online magazine covering the management of the threats posed by global warming, industrial accidents, pandemics and terrorism www.contingencytoday.com Jonathan also works as a freelance journalist and writer. His most recent assignment was in France for US-based magazine, Water and Wastewater International and his critique, Heathrow: Time to Get Smarter and Faster, appeared in airline pilots' trade union BALPA's magazine, The Log, in October/November 2007.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR); a Member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; and a Freeman of the City of London. He is the author of the CIPR report on the Internet entitled The Death of Spin? published in April 2000.

The first ten years of Jonathan's career were spent in the construction industry, working mainly in the Netherlands and Middle East. He was formerly the Gulf marketing manager for a project management company based in Abu Dhabi.