Cai Wilshaw
Associate Director
Cai Wilshaw is an Associate Director in public affairs at Hawthorn Advisors. Prior to this role, he was the Account Director for HOUND Global’s PR efforts for the Betfair Exchange’s UK and US Election markets.
He has been involved in Labour Party politics in Westminster and in Wales for over a decade, and regularly appears on the BBC and GB News as a Labour political commentator.
He has spent much of his career with The Economist, where his most recent role was as a Senior Programming Editor, and Head of Event Content for the Innovation Quotient programme. In the role he worked with senior politicians and C-level executives at some of the world’s largest companies and startups, including with Ray Dalio, Lloyd Blankfein, Arianna Huffington, Indra Nooyi and David Rubenstein. Before this, he was a Producer with the Financial Times’ TNW, and the Head of External Affairs at PinkNews.
