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CONSERVATIVES ABROAD DIRECTORY 2015 www.conservativesabroad.org Conservatives Abroad plays an important part to ensure a Conservative majority Government in representing the Party overseas, connecting in 2015, and members of Conservatives Abroad our members around the world and helping us will have an important role imparting our achieve our strategic goals. As Chairmen of achievements and message to those voters the Party our role is to work with our members, living in their communities. wherever they live, to achieve this. Overseas voters can be the deciding factor in The Lord Feldman of Elstree those close marginal seats we will need to win Party Chairman I became Chairman of Conservatives Abroad in Younger that not only should the registration 2001 taking over from Robin Hodgson, now Lord forms be on-line but that on-line completion Hodgson of Astley Abbotts. We had a number of would greatly increase registration. Despite this branches at that time but there was much to be registration remains a challenge for us all. done to improve communication and to increase electoral registration. Registration was a very Meanwhile I enjoyed many visits to branches, complex procedure and not surprisingly most the problems of the registration of political of those living and working overseas were not organisations in Spain for example, and the registered. sense of common purpose which has continued under Caroline Abel Smith OBE from 2008 and Encouraged by the late Dick Pantlin (founder of is now flourishing under Heather Harper. the British School in Brussels) we persuaded the Foreign Office that their embassies and consulates could be pro-active. We also The Rt. Hon. Lord Taylor of Holbeach CBE persuaded the Electoral Commission under Sam Government Chief Whip, House of Lords CONSERVATIVES ABROAD HISTORY Conservatives Abroad was set up by the late David Smith OBE in 1985. In an extract from ‘My Memoirs and More’ he describes the beginning: “In sixteen years as a Young Conservative Organiser at CCO! It was a mistake, I hated it. and a Constituency Agent I managed to bring Cecil Parkinson into politics, assist Norman Tebbit into front Fortunately there was a further cabinet re-shuffle line politics and be the Election Agent responsible for in 1984. Norman Tebbit was made Party Chairman Tom Arnold gaining the Liberal seat of Hazel Grove – and Tom Arnold his deputy. Soon after, I had a call one of the only two gains in October 1974. Those three one evening from Tom. He and Norman wanted me events had great significance in my political career to return to CCO to run a campaign to register newly and Conservatives Abroad. enfranchised overseas citizens. I returned in 1985 as Director of an un-named department under the wing In 1977, I joined CCO as Deputy Director of Local of Jim Spicer MP, Chairman of the International Office. Government. A Successful time, principally in charge of privatisation in Local Councils where I was given a secretary (who didn’t last very long) TU dominated Direct Labour Organisations held and an office nearby to CCO. There was no guidance, the democratically elected councils to ransom. just a copy of the Representation of the People Act The Fortunes changed, the Party Chairman, Cecil extending the franchise to expats. In a way I was Parkinson, resigned. His successor reorganised fortunate in that I had a blank canvas. My first task CCO. I was offered and accepted a post in a Trade was to devise a name for the organisation. I opted for Association at a commercial salary much higher than Conservatives Abroad.” 2 Conservatives Abroad Directory | 2015 OFFICERS CONSERVATIVES ABROAD President Conservatives Abroad The Prime Minister Rt. Hon David Cameron MP www.number10.gov.uk Conservative Abroad Campaign Chairman Director Heather Harper Paul Barnes [email protected] [email protected] 4 Matthew Parker Street, T: +33 467 953 938 London SW1H 9HQ T: +44 207 984 8015 T: +44 7778 355 882 Membership Administrator Treasurer Fundraising Philip Dumville Douglas Hansen-Luke Rula Al Adasani philip.dumville@beaconsfield- [email protected] [email protected] conservatives.co.uk T: +44 7803 818 431 T: +44 (0)7736 360 795 Advisory Group Political Political Media Christopher Chantrey OBE Tristan Feuenteun Gaile Griffin-Peers [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] T: +33 608 233 667 T: +44 7867 353 673 Conservatives Abroad Directory | 2015 3 COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVES ARGENTINA BELGIUM Brussels Sandy (Alexander) Harper Adam Isaacs [email protected] [email protected] T: +54 9115 324 2869 T: +32 470824746 Giles Houghton-Clarke AUSTRALIA Brisbane [email protected] Lachlan Evans T: +32 470 824 746 [email protected] www.conservativesbelgium.org T: +61 7322 192 29 T: +44 7765 003703 BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS Tortola Andrew Coddington AUSTRALIA Canberra [email protected] Alastair Kinloch T: +1 284 541 1925 [email protected] T: +61 262 959017 James Bridgewater M: +61 412 437315 [email protected] T: +1 284 542 0715 AUSTRALIA Perth Simon Glass CANADA Ontario [email protected] Julian Neal T: +61 439 945 963 [email protected] AUSTRALIA Sydney CANADA Pacific North West Nikki Kinloch British Columbia, Washington & Oregon [email protected] Alex Kanias T: +61 451 978 765 [email protected] [email protected] AZERBAIJAN T: +1 206 931 7004 Nara Hodge www.facebook.com/conservativespnw/info [email protected] CHINA The Beijing Blue Club BAHRAIN Mark Pinner Sandra Whitford MBE [email protected] [email protected] T: +86 18601 206875 T: +973 3947 0274 William Spiers [email protected] T: +86 (010) 5286 7969 M: +86 13439 788788 4 Conservatives Abroad Directory | 2015 CHINA Shanghai GERMANY William Vanbergen John Dovey [email protected] [email protected] T: +86 21 3360 7080 T: +44 2032 392707 – skype M: +49 1724 529666 CYPRUS Dr. Tim Potier GREECE Athens [email protected] Erika Angelidi T: +357 99582967 [email protected] SKYPE: athens.conservatives.uk CZECH REPUBLIC Prague Gina Hearn OBE HONG KONG [email protected] Stephen Gore [email protected] [email protected] T: +420 283 893 113 T: +852 9555 55891 M: +420 775 381 239 Nick Green [email protected] ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa T: +852 9466 2197 Ron Stott [email protected] INDIA Bombay T: +44 (0) 91202 6059 Dr Dhara Anjaria FRAS FRHistS [email protected] FRANCE Normandy M: +91 9820 046826 Sally Frise [email protected] INDONESIA Jakarta T: +33 231 10 15 06 Niina M K Strobel [email protected] FRANCE Paris T: +62 (0) 8128 4005568 Jeremy Stubbs [email protected] ISRAEL M: +33 68881 70 94 Lee Scott [email protected] FRANCE South – L’Horte Paul Barnes JAMAICA [email protected] Theresa Roberts T: +33 467 953 938 [email protected] T: +44 7765 461594 FRANCE South West – Villereal David Rollston-Smith JAPAN Tokyo [email protected] Trevor Webster T: +33 5 53 40 98 05 [email protected] FRANCE Var – Lorgues LUXEMBOURG Anita Rieu-Sicart Allan Stewart [email protected] [email protected] T: +33 04 94 04 49 60 T: +352 621 263751 www.conservativesluxembourg.org Conservatives Abroad Directory | 2015 5 MALTA SINGAPORE Lesley Taylor BEM Colin Blackwell [email protected] [email protected] T: +356 77 451 556 [email protected] T: +65 9011 5567 MOROCCO – Tangier David Ashworth SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town [email protected] The Macmillan Club T: +212600126944 Philippe-Joseph Salazar [email protected] MEXICO T: +27 82 902 1207 Jose Antonio Del Valle Philip Engelen [email protected] [email protected] T: +52 15543 468668 T: +27 21 689 3594 Christian Borrman Ian Wason [email protected] [email protected] T: +44 7795 248548 T: +27 82 444 0070 NETHERLANDS SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg Malcolm Smith Martin Sprott [email protected] [email protected] T: +31 172 588381 T: +27 83 980 2336 OMAN SPAIN Costa del Sol Nabil Albusaidi Alex Radford [email protected] [email protected] T: +968 961 2 9473 M: +34 6714 80001 POLAND Warsaw SPAIN Ibiza Marek Matraszek Pamela Deakin MBE [email protected] [email protected] T: +48 601 336040 T: +34 9713 42243 M: +34 6067 12126 ROMANIA Bucharest Juan Gamecho SPAIN Javea [email protected] Gaile Griffin-Peers T: +40 21 233 8409 [email protected] M: +40 722 291 700 SPAIN Madrid SAUDI ARABIA Jaime Gamell-Riera William Patrick Harford [email protected] [email protected] T: +34 680 499 360 Terry Madill [email protected] 6 Conservatives Abroad Directory | 2015 SPAIN Mallorca USA New Jersey & Brooklyn Peter Newey Ben Lewis [email protected] [email protected] T: +34 659 244 538 T: +1 919 600 3708 SPAIN Tenerife USA New York Anne Reardon-Smith Isabel M Carden MBE [email protected] [email protected] T: +34 933 351 135 T: +1 917 402 6999 T: +1 212 861 2126 THAILAND Bangkok Amanda Pullinger Simon Allison [email protected] [email protected] T: +66 26 319766 USA California T: +66 66 319766 Mark Whelan [email protected] TURKEY Ankara & Aydin T: +1 415 318 6396 Klaus Jurgens MSc [email protected] Mary Toman T: +90 555 493 6829 [email protected] UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Abu Dhabi USA Texas Peter Michelmore OBE Patrick Roughneen [email protected] [email protected] T: +971 2622 2636 M: +971 5061 59426 USA Washington DC Michael Burton-Prateley DUBAI [email protected] Laura Hutchins T: +1 443 841 7374 [email protected] T: +1 443 564 5561 T: +971 52 837 1794 Catherine Bray [email protected] USA Chicago T: +1 202 352 7485 Bart Smith [email protected] GIBRALTAR USA Florida (Part of the SW region rather Jackie Brownhill than Conservatives Abroad).
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