Geoff Beattie

Geoff Beattie is responsible for all of Cohn & Wolfe’s global practices, with the goal of developing the highest level of expertise in different sectors and disciplines. He is also the leader of Cohn & Wolfe’s new Global Energy Practice. As head of the Energy Practice, Geoff’s mission is to lead a team of consultants with real expertise in all energy sectors: oil & gas, coal, utilities & power, nuclear, renewables & alternative fuels. Geoff is currently a strategic communications adviser to one of the world’s leading oil and gas companies.

He was previously a senior consultant to the leadership team at Shell Renewables, Hydrogen & CO2. He is also an adviser to the energy team at WS Atkins plc, the UK’s largest engineering consultancy. Geoff joined C&W in January 2007 as Managing Director of the London office. Before that, he ran the London office of Pleon, Europe’s biggest communications agency, and part of the BBDO group. Geoff started in PR a decade ago as a partner in a start-up, HBL Media, which quickly grew to a PR Week Top 100 agency, on the back of blue chip clients like Nokia, London Stock Exchange and the Financial Services Authority. Before that, Geoff worked in broadcasting for a number of years, and was senior producer at GMTV, the UK’s most popular morning show. He trained as a journalist on newspapers in the UK.