Toby Burham -Communications
Toby Burnham is a global communications strategist with over 30 years’ experience operating at the intersection of media, politics and international affairs. He advises clients worldwide on reputation, crisis management and high-impact campaigns. He previously spent two decades at Freud Communications, rising to Head of News and Media, leading major projects including the London 2012 Olympics and global event communications. Burnham has worked extensively with governments, multilateral organisations and corporate leaders, delivering complex international media strategies, particularly across Africa and the Middle East, and building specialist teams to execute high-stakes communications with precision and impact.
Will Wintercross- Geopolitics
Will Wintercross is foreign correspondent, geopolitical and communications consultant, and public speaker with 20 years experience working for major news networks and multi national companies. He has spent years, collectively, working on assignment in EMEA for The Telegraph, CNN, PBS Newshour and the Global Health Reporting Center covering various wars, Ebola outbreaks and other major stories. Will uses this skill set to great effect providing strategic and crisis comms consultancy as well as geopolitical strategy to multi nationals. He is a Pulitzer grantee and has given lectures to summer school students at Oxford and Cambridge, and college in the US. He is represented by Chartwell Speakers.
John D McHugh- Exec Producer
John D McHugh is an award winning filmmaker and photojournalist. He is as comfortable working in austere conditions in the desert or jungle as he is conducting interviews in the boardroom. His documentary work has appeared on Al Jazeera English, Channel 4 News, ITV News, BBC, The Guardian, The New York Times, Newsweek and TIME. He handles all aspects of media production. McHugh is a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths University in London, where he teaches filmmaking at postgraduate level.