Lord John Sharkey was joint Managing Director of Saatchi and Saatchi UK, founded and ran his own advertising agency and was chair of various other communications and recruitment enterprises. He became strategic communications advisor to Nick Clegg in 2007 and was Chair of the party’s general election campaign in 2010. He is a former Chair of the Hansard Society, a founding director of the New City Agenda and Chair of the Association of Medical Research Charities and of the Specialised Healthcare Alliance. He is a Director at Full Fact and Turn2us. He is also a member of the House of Lords and is the Liberal Democrat spokesperson in the House of Lords on Personal Finance.