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He was described by the Financial Times as the "secret weapon" behind Russia’s winning bid to host the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. Leadership
Newman’s work on the themes of confidence and of leadership through crisis is widely cited. In 2008, he founded The Leadership Council to bring together some of the United Kingdom"s most senior leadership experience as a research and thought leadership body.
Mary-Jo Jacobi Jephson, Val Gooding, Anthony Gordon-Lennox, Tony Hall, Lady Judge, The Earl of March, David Richards, Sir John Scarlett, Sir Tom Shebbeare, and Lord Watson.
Newman developed the message and strategy for electoral participation in the first post-Saddam national elections in Iraq, through a series of war-zone workshops in Baghdad. The elections that year saw an unprecedented, and subsequently unrepeated, 72% voter turnout.
Newman is currently Senior Partner at The Leadership Agency, a leadership communications consultancy based in London. Design
Newman worked as Content Editor of the Millennium Dome, commissioning Zaha Hadid’s first major built United Kingdom project – The Mind Zone.
Fair Trade
Newman ran the first Fairtrade office from the spare room of his small London apartment, helping to create the basis for a major social enterprise with annual sales figures for Fairtrade certified products in the United Kingdom nearing £1bn.
Newman was born in Nagpur, India in 1963. In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Chaired by Lord Janvrin, the members of the Council are Editor Butler, Jonathan Chenevix-Trench, Simon Davies, Iain Ferguson, The Honorary