Benjamin Charles Wegg-Prosser (born June 1974) is a British consultant and political adviser. He is CEO and co-founder of Global Counsel, a London-based strategic consultancy and lobbying organisation, which has

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as its President. Wegg-Prosser was

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's Director of Strategic Communications at

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Early life

Wegg-Prosser's father is the

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. His mother Victoria, née Bird, has been a producer for the BBC. His grandfather Charles Wegg-Prosser was a parliamentary candidate for the

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before repudiating the party and joining Labour. After service in the British Army in World War II, his grandfather served as a councillor on the

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for many years in the 1940s and 1950s, and then an

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Career

Wegg-Prosser worked for

before leaving in December 1998 and working briefly for media group Pearson PLC, before joining ''

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'' in 2000. His father acted for Mandelson in the purchase of a home which was investigated by the

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in 1999. At ''The Guardian'' he held positions as publisher of ''The Guardian''’s politics website, general manager of the education website, and finally publisher of ''Society Guardian''. As publisher of the latter he launched a series of brand extensions including conferences, books, magazines and new sections in the newspaper. From 2005 to 2007 Wegg-Prosser was

's Director of Strategic Communications at

, where he oversaw a series of innovations including the launch of Downing Street's e-petitions service. He also implemented the first

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channel for any head of government, which Blair launched in April 2007. In 2007 he joined

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, a Moscow-based digital media company, where he was Director of Corporate Development. SUP Media is a Moscow-based online media company which owns LiveJournal.com, Championat.ru, Gazeta.ru, +SOl and Victory SA. In 2008 he additionally became a consultant for recently created public relations company The Ledbury Group, focusing on new media and political relations. As of 2013, Wegg-Prosser is managing partner of Global Counsel, a London-based strategic consultancy which is chaired by Peter Mandelson. In April that year, Wegg-Prosser became a director of the Labour Party supporting blog

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. In September 2013, Wegg-Prosser released internal

emails about the internal fight in September 2006 to prevent Tony Blair being replaced as prime minister by

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, which eventually happened in June 2007. Wegg-Prosser was a funder of

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, a campaigning group with several senior Labour Party figures on its board, which opposed the leadership of

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References

External links

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Global Counsel
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