Jason is a founding partner of Newgate Communications. He spent 20 years as a national newspaper journalist, including six years as City editor of The Independent on Sunday, before becoming director of media relations at Barclays plc. Since moving to consultancy he has advised clients across the energy and environmental spectrum, including UKOOG, the onshore oil and gas trade body, Third Energy, Glencore, Carbon Trust and Shell. He is also a former director of NIREX, the body charged with the safe storage and disposal of high and intermediate level nuclear waste and has lectured on crisis communications at Harvard University.
