Paddy is a specialist in media and sustainable development with extensive experience of international communications. Since 2007 he has been working as a consultant on a wide range of media and communications assignments which have included work on communications strategy (for organisations as diverse as the UK Department for International Development, the Centre for International Climate and Environment Research Oslo and HelpAge International), journalism training (for example, for the Thompson and Wincott Foundations and the British Council) and media training for environment and development agencies ( such as Oxfam International and the Royal Forestry Society) and also for academic research groups (like the Nekton marine research foundation and the Emerging Markets Symposium).
An Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford, Paddy has led media training seminars and workshops at universities around the world including at the University of Accra Ghana, the University of Perm Russia and Queen’s University Belfast. From 2007 to 2018 he acted as Communications Director for the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) of Oxford University’s Department of International Development.
Paddy is a former Director of Studies at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford, responsible for the Reuters Journalism Programme from 2001/2007. He was previously Director of the independent television production company, the International Broadcasting Trust, between 1990 and 2001, producing over a hundred television programmes for leading broadcasters on global development, environment and human rights issues.In 1996 he was given the Gold Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association in New York for the television documentary series, ‘Under the Blue Flag’, and in 2000 he was awarded OBE “for services to development awareness”.
He is a Trustee of the international human rights body, the Equal Rights Trust, and was until recently Chair of the international freedom of expression organisation, ARTICLE 19. He is also a trustee of the Philip Geddes Memorial Trust which seeks to promote student journalism within Oxford University. He has had extensive experience of trust boards having served as a Trustee for Oxfam, UNICEF-UK, Comic Relief and the Media Trust. He is currently a jury member of the international Fetisov Journalism Awards.
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