GSPM MasterClass Series event featuring The Honorable Damian Collins, Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom. Our GSPM MasterClass Series is a (high-definition/professional) video-taped, one-on-one conversation slated to bring together former and current elected officials, political, and communications professionals, benefiting the ongoing education of our students.
Details of Event:
What: GSPM MasterClass: A Conversation with The Honorable Damian Collins
When: Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM.
Where: Richard Eaton Broadcast Suite, 5th Floor of GW Media and Public Affairs Building (805 21st St. NW, Washington, DC 20052).
How: A video recording of this event will be taken and you may appear on camera. Business attire suggested and you must arrive promptly at or before 11:30am in order to be seated for the event.
About the Guest: Damian Collins has served as the Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe since 2010.
In October 2016 he was elected by the House of Commons as Chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee, having previously served as a member of the committee. In this role he led the committee’s inquiries into doping in sports, fake news, football governance, homophobia in sports, and the impact of Brexit on the creative industries and tourism. His role brought him to GW in February 2018, where he chaired a committee fact-gathering hearing on fake news, the first time a UK Parliament hearing of this sort took place in the United States.
During the Coalition government Collins served between 2014-15 as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the then Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond. From 2012 to 2014 he was PPS to the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Theresa Villiers.
Collins’s career before politics was in the advertising and communications industries, mostly at the M&C Saatchi advertising agency in London where he worked from 1999 to 2008. He was born in Northampton in 1974. He is married with two children, and they live in Elham in Kent, and in London. He is a keen sports fan and a lifelong supporter of Manchester United.
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Cancellation Policy: If for any reason you have RSVP'd and you cannot attend, please let Laura Vasisko know immediately and your space will be given to the next individual on the waitlist.
