APCO Worldwide Adds Award-Winning Investigative Journalist Tom Harper to London Team

London – 19 July 2022: Tom Harper, an award-winning investigative journalist and specialist in strategic communication, crisis, international relations and public affairs, has joined APCO Worldwide as a director in the firm’s London office, London Managing Director Roi Feder announced today.

Harper will support an array of the firm’s clients ranging from CEOs and C-level executives at the world’s largest companies to high-profile individuals and senior government officials, providing strategic counsel on topics including crisis, campaigns, politics, international relations and media.

“I’m thrilled to have Tom join our team,” Feder said. “Our London team already has a strong bench of corporate communications and media relations experts and I’m thrilled to be able to add to this with an expert of Tom’s calibre. He brings with him a deep understanding of crisis issues, an international perspective and a drive to help clients navigate the many commercial and geopolitical challenges they are currently facing. I’m looking forward to seeing his global expertise come to life at APCO and help us to continue to strengthen our offering in London and around the world.”

Prior to joining APCO, Harper consulted for various communications agencies in areas including technology, finance, environmental and life sciences. Before he transitioned into consultancy, he worked as a multi-award-winning investigative journalist. As a home affairs correspondent at the Sunday Times, Harper covered topics regarding police, security, immigration, crime, the courts, hybrid warfare and cyber. He also served as the investigation’s editor of The Independent, overseeing several major investigations uncovering corporate corruption in London.

As a journalist, Harper received several honours such as the Scoop of the Year and Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. He has been recognized as a nominee for Specialist Journalist of the Year, News Reporter of the Year and Crime and Legal Affairs Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards. Since leaving the Sunday Times, Harper has been working on his debut book covering Scotland Yard which will be published in Autumn 2022.

Harper said, “I am delighted to join APCO at a time when the company is clearly thriving despite the challenging market conditions we all face. APCO has unrivalled understanding of the biggest challenges facing business and society today and the ability to devise strategies to help clients navigate these difficult and complex issues. The London office clearly continues to be a hub for APCO’s business worldwide, with the media playing an increasingly important part of that offering. I am looking forward to joining and hope to be able to bring something new to this fantastic and dynamic London team.”

Harper joins a deep bench of experts at APCO in London and other offices in the region focusing on strategic communications, including Feder, London Deputy Managing Directors Daniella Lebor and Tom Short, Senior Advisor Richard Burn, Senior Director Tristan Lemonnier and Senior Counsellor and International Advisory Council member Lord Stuart Polak.

For more than 38 years, APCO has been a trusted advisor and partner to private, public and non-profit clients as they try to identify and manage new and emerging issues, challenges and opportunities around the world. Established by Margery Kraus as a single-person operation in 1984, APCO has grown to a global advisory and advocacy communications consultancy helping clients be catalysts for progress through its 950+ staff and International Advisory Council members in more than 30 markets and having experience working in more than 80 markets globally, providing in-depth advice, perceptive guidance and creative approaches for its clients