Communications Expertise
Hillier Consulting advises start-ups, executive boards and CEOs, shaping and guiding corporate narrative and devising engagement strategies to help secure corporate and business objectives. Scanning the horizon, we identify risk and turn potential challenge to opportunity and advantage.
The consultancy’s director of communications and corporate affairs is Andrew Hillier. Andrew served as Director of Communications and chief officer with the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), Aberdeenshire unitary authority, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and the City of Westminster where he established the UK’s highest profile and most successful local government communications department.
Formerly a communications specialist in fossil fuels and nuclear energy he then served in crisis management roles, as communications adviser to the UK Forensic Science Service and later, as consultant to London’s Metropolitan Police. Andrew led the Westminster communications team for the national public funeral for Diana, Princess of Wales and was Chief Communications Officer for headline issues including the murder of Philip Lawrence, public order and safety at Notting Hill Carnival and the Westminster ‘Homes for Votes’ and MPs’ expenses scandals.
In the veterinary health sector, Andrew has led best practice communications strategies for Foot and Mouth disease, BSE, outbreaks of H5N1 (avian influenza), H1N1 (swine ‘flu), Equine Influenza, Equine Herpes Virus (EHV) and Bluetongue. He is a winner of the UK Veterinary Marketing Association’s Practice
Marketing Award and the Marketing Campaign Award. As a Board Director of the UK’s Veterinary Management Group he headed communications, lobbying and public affairs. Andrew is a former Board Member of the European Association of Communications Directors, a member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists and of the Public Relations and Communications Association. A member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, he is former Greater London Chairman and CIPR National Council member.
