Nick Hope is Managing Director of Edelman’s 90-person UK Corporate team which works across the full-spectrum of corporate communications. He provides c-suite counsel and leads integrated communications teams for major multi-market accounts. He operates at the intersection between business, politics and culture and is a specialist in narrative development, strategic positioning and crisis management.
Previously at Edelman he was Chief of Staff for Europe, Middle East & Africa, sitting on the Regional Executive Committee and Chief of Staff for the UK & Ireland. He has been a member of the Corporate team since joining the firm over half a decade ago.
Before his career at Edelman, Nick spent just over a year dividing his time between working as a speechwriter for private clients in business and entertainment and advising Hilary Benn MP as Chair of the Brexit Committee. Prior to that, Nick worked as a Political Adviser in the UK to the Shadow Foreign Secretary and Shadow Communities Secretary. He also worked in the UK Parliament for the Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, and the former Deputy Prime Minister. From 2008 to 2011, Nick was a Senior Researcher at a thinktank.