Chris Brown is a Client Director at MCE and specialises in Public Affairs, Crisis & Issues Management and Corporate Social Responsibility.
Prior to joining MCE, Chris was the Head of Public Affairs in the Belfast office of a leading global Communications company after starting with the firm through its Graduate programme in London. He spent three years there working on issues with clients such as Nestle, the Crown Estate and the Meat and Livestock Commission.
Last year he was named in the prestigious PR Week ‘29 under 29’ and achieved Accredited Practioner status with the Chartered Institute of Public Relations during a yearlong training and development programme.
His high profile campaigns in Northern Ireland include work for Marie Curie, The Electoral Commission, The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and IKEA for which he won a European SABRE award on the market entry strategy to the island of Ireland. He has won a number of CIPR and PRII awards for his work in Belfast, London and Dublin.
While at Queens University Belfast he read Politics with Media and was in the first group of interns to be embedded with the Northern Ireland Assembly, placed with the Committee of the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister. He went on to complete an industry orientated MSc in Political Communication and Public Affairs at the University of Ulster.
He is a graduate of the Washington Ireland Programme for Service and Leadership interning with Hart Opinion Polling in Washington DC. While in DC he had the opportunity to address a Congressional Forum, something he was to repeat a number of years later. In 2008 Chris was selected for the Kennedy School of Government, Leaders for Tomorrow programme at Harvard University and retains a significant interest in Irish-American relations.
In the last year Chris has travelled to Uganda twice leading a school building project in one of the most remote parts of the country. During this time Chris blogged about his experience which can we viewed here. This project has increased his interest in International Development and plans to make further trips to the country.
He has always had an eye on being a war correspondent but fears his like of home comforts has had an impact on this actually being achieved.