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Profile – MILES CELIC The Man United fan who is the new Man from the Pru After Oxford University, and working for companies including Fishburn Hedges and HSBC, Miles Celic recently landed the top public affairs job at FTSE 100 insurance giant Prudential. Not bad for a ‘working-class’ Salford lad, says Adam Hill “Our focus is on there being an approlose your eyes. Picture a man who was one of the first reality priate, measured, considered regulatory reTV show participants and who sponse,” Celic says. “We don’t want a Danhas also played football against gerous Dogs Act of financial regulation.” His reference is to the notorious kneeRyan Giggs. Open them again: the chances are that Miles Celic, a neat, jerkism of the 1990s Act that was rushed 30-something, bespectacled fellow, is not into law on the back of dreadful publicity who you have imagined. But the director of around canine attacks. “The clamour to ‘do group public affairs and policy at global insomething’ about the banks is quite a strong one,” he continues. “Our focus is to ensure surance giant Prudential is that man. that the regulatory response is Manchester United legend proportionate. We haven’t been Giggs went to the same school a source of instability.” as Celic, so they played in “We don’t want a Prudential has responded to the schoolyard; their respective parents live ‘50 feet away’ Dangerous Dogs FSA chairman Lord Turner’s banking from one another in Salford. Act of financial review on Celic says, regulation and was, the only And Channel 4’s People’s regulation” insurer to make a submission to Parliament, while not exactly the Treasury select committee. the Big Brother house, was Having come from the world’s biggest original enough in the early 1990s. The idea was to get 100 or so members of the bank, Celic is well placed to point out the public – Celic was one of them – to sit in differences between the sectors. “There is a the House of Commons TV set at Mandesire now to look at regulation: the ‘light chester’s Granada studios and film them touch’ was seen to have not worked in the case of banks,” he admits. debating issues of the day. “But the insurance sector hasn’t had the He enjoyed the experience and you can see why: appointed earlier this year to the problems of the banking sector. The liabiliPru from HSBC, Celic has a confident air ties are normally much better funded, and that opens doors. And he will need all of day-to-day liquidity is not an issue.” that charm in the next few months. C Ian Hall Miles Celic born : FACTFILE 26 May 1973 in Salford education : lives : Moorside High School and Eccles Sixth Form College, Salford; Balliol College, Oxford University (MA in History) Balham, South London; married, two sons (aged four and six) Manchester United FC, cinema, theatre hobbies : Public affairs priority Insurance companies, regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), have come out of the financial crisis reasonably well. Naturally, Celic wants to keep it that way. If Prudential could pick just one PA priority, it would be – in common with every other financial services firm not involved in banking – to plead for regulators not to lump everyone in together with the disgraced sector. ‘Working-class immigrant’ background CV HIGHLIGHTS 2009: Group public affairs and policy director, Prudential 2007: Manager – government relations, HSBC 2000: Consultant, Fishburn Hedges 1999: Public affairs officer, Water UK 1997: Consultant, GPC/Connect 1996: Researcher, Calum MacDonald MP 1994: Researcher/broadcaster, Barraclough Carey Productions By coincidence, financial turbulence features in Celic’s first political memory, which is “James Callaghan being defeated at the 1979 general election, just before my sixth birthday”. It’s an interesting way of looking at it, of course – most people remember Mrs Thatcher being elected. But then Celic was brought up in Labour-supporting Salford, about as far away from true blue as it was possible to get in those days. “You weighed the Labour vote, not counted it,” he says. 20 | PublicAffairsNews | August 2009 August 2009 DS AR – AW S N ER IDE S PA W INN E IN SE www.publicaffairsnews.c inside this issue Chemicals lobby suspended from Commission’s register Complaint from Friends of the Earth Europe over CEFIC’s declared spend triggers action By ian hall MP S IN OUR MIDST? The PPCs who work in lobbying Ideas sent in so far for our ’50 Best Lobbying Campaigns Ever’ ranking... ...keep them coming to top50campaigns@publicaf news PPCs take jobs as public affairs consultants Conservative election candidate launches own PA consultancy; another takes role at PLMR The Conservatives’ PPC for Yeovil, Kevin Davis, has launched a public affairs consultancy named Cratus, after the Greek god of strength. 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Not bad for a ‘working-class’ Salford lad, s PROFILE – MILES CELIC His parents were not much involved in politics: originally from Yugoslavia, forging a life in a new country, they wanted to keep their heads down and work hard. “It was a classic working-class immigrant background,” says Celic. Celic made his way from the local state school to LOBBYISTS AND PARLIAMENT MPs in our midst? In the fourth installment of our ‘Lobbyists and Parliament’ series, Ian Hall finds out how many of the next election’s confirmed prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) work in public affairs/communications Philip Allott COMMS/PA JOB: Founding managing LOBBYISTS AND PARLIAMENT Darren Caplan COMMS/PA JOB: Director of B2L Public Affairs in London STANDING FOR: Conservatives in Hackney North and Stoke Newington Richard Clein COMMS/PA JOB: Associate director at Bell Pottinger North STANDING FOR: Lib Dems in Sefton Central Damian Collins COMMS/PA JO LOBBYISTS AND PARLIAMENT ned six of the ‘Eyes on the prize’: in July last year PAN conve e; this feature listed in this edition for an extended featur PPCs in PAN’s ‘Lobbyists and Parliament’ series was the first Nick Clegg: the current leader of the Liberal Democrats formerly worked at GJW Govern recruitment appointments August 2009 | PublicAffairsNews | 25 electus making the right connection Go on! Make the leap! 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