Gurpreet Brar
Edelman - Brussels General Manager
Gurpreet Brar joined Edelman in July 2014 and manages the Edelman Brussels team. He brings over fifteen years’ experience of communication and issues management. Leading a team of consultants, Gurpreet works across a range of sectors and issues including litigation, financial services, energy, health, tech and food.
He has worked with a
diverse range of clients on reputation management, campaigning for public
policy change, and advising on social purpose endeavours. His current clients
include trade associations, corporate organisations and partnership
organisations. He also works with the European institutions including the
European Parliament, the European Investment Bank and CHAFEA.
Before joining
Edelman Gurpreet worked as an advisor to Lord Turner at the Financial Services
Authority. This role included advocating for policy agreement in international
and regional forums, crisis management and finding creative solutions to
resolve challenging policy challenges.
Gurpreet also held
several roles within the UK Labour party between 2005 and 2010. This included
working with then Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, as well as
pivotal roles in the local, national and European election campaigns.