Nigel Warner
CEO, Pact
Nigel has extensive experience in both the political and creative sectors, having been Special Advisor (SpAd) to the Rt Hon Mo Mowlam MP at the Northern Ireland Office and Cabinet Office, and also SpAd to the Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
Following his time in Government, Nigel became Director of Public Affairs at ITV for four years at a crucial time for the future of the public service broadcaster. He then co-founded Creative Access with a mission for the UK media to become more inclusive, which is now an industry-funded social enterprise. He has also written for the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) on policy for the media and creative industries.
More recently Nigel was the UK Policy Consultant for the Motion Picture Association as well as Special Counsel at strategic communications consultancy, Lexington, where he focussed for more than ten years on policy issues of concern to the creative industries providing policy, strategy and political communications advice.
