Trustees

Howard Dawber has been Strategic Advisor at Canary Wharf Group since August 2004. In addition to work on corporate strategic issues, he is responsible for public affairs, government and external relations. Howard manages Canary Wharf Group’s Public and Community Affairs Department including the Social and Economic Development team.

After University, Howard spent a year as a property consultant and a year working for a small European Think Tank before starting a career in public affairs consultancy with Westminster Strategy and later Bell Pottinger. While at Bell Pottinger, Howard ran the successful campaign for Newport in Wales to be granted City Status and advised the successful Liverpool 2008 Capital of Culture bid. He was part of a team which won the 2003 PR Week Public Affairs Campaign of the Year award.

Howard was a member of the Improvement and Development Agency Peer Review Panel and has worked for both central and local government as a communication and strategy consultant.

Howard represents Canary Wharf on the Board of Think London, Gateway to London, East London Business Alliance, Legacy 2020, UK Careers Academy Foundation, Campaign for Crossrail, he is and on various committees for business group London First and on the Domestic Promotions and Public Affairs Working Groups of CityUK.

Howard was a member of the London 2012 Business Board and played an active role in London’s successful bid for the Olympics which was sponsored and hosted by Canary Wharf Group. In 2006 he set up the business consortium which won the Government’s Legacy Trust competition to deliver the cultural and social legacy of the games, and he is now a Governor of the Legacy Trust.

He is the Chair of the Isle of Dogs Community Foundation and a Trustee of THESIS, a charity working on educational projects in Bangladesh.

Howard was the Labour Party Parliamentary Candidate for Bexleyheath and Crayford in south east London in the 2010 General Election and for Cheadle, Greater Manchester in the 2001 General Election. He has worked on political campaigns in the UK, USA and Germany. He has advised the Labour Party on internet campaigning and won several internet campaign awards.