Kate Garvey

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Person.png Kate Garvey   PowerbaseRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(Diary secretary, head of public and social affairs)
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SpouseJimmy Wales
Member ofWEF/Young Global Leaders/2007

Kate Garvey is an English public relations executive and a former aide to British prime minister Tony Blair. She is married to Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.[1]

Career

Political staff member

Garvey's career began as a personal assistant for the Labour party under leader Neil Kinnock.[2] From there, she moved to become diary secretary for Tony Blair.[3]

In 1994 during Blair's leadership bid, Garvey suggested that Peter Mandelson, who was at the time being derided by the trade unions and other Labour factions, should adopt a "nom de guerre" to conceal his considerable role within the campaign team. Mandelson agreed to be called "Bobby" for the duration. In his victory speech, Blair referred to Mandelson by the false name.[4][5]

From 1997 until 2005, except for campaign seasons, Garvey worked in the Prime Minister's Private Office.[6] She was responsible for presentation and planning of domestic and foreign events and visits. By 2005, Garvey's role had progressed to scheduling. Aide Katie Kay, who had worked for Blair's advisor John Birt, had taken over the diary secretary job.[7]

On the campaign circuit, Garvey worked on Blair's behalf in the 1977 General Election and of 2001. A Telegraph story in 2001, "Babes on the Bus who keep the campaign journalists at bay", described Garvey as one of a band of women led by Anji Hunter who kept discipline on the political tour with their superior-to-male attention to detail.[8] In Blair's 2005 General Election, Garvey ran his election tour.

In his memoir A Journey, Blair reflected on Garvey's importance:

"[She] was the gatekeeper, the custodian of the diary. There is a whole PhD thesis to be written by some smart political student about the importance of scheduling to a modern prime minister or president...She ran the diary with a grip of iron and was quite prepared to squeeze the balls very hard indeed of anyone who interfered, but with a winning smile of course."[9]

Public relations

After leaving government in 2005, Garvey worked on Bob Geldof's charity campaign, Make Poverty History, which produced the Live 8 concerts. That same year, she was hired by PR firm Freud Communications as the head of public and social affairs.[10]

Garvey was selected by the World Economic Forum in 2007[11] as a "Young Global Leader", a designation awarded to persons under 40 who have shown leadership qualities.[12][13]

Kate Garvey is mentioned in a 2008 Telegraph profile on Matthew Freud as 'reportedly managing the Freud-Blair relationship'. The article describes an ongoing connection of Blair and Freud in terms of socialising (Freud throwing celebrity-attended parties) as well as Freud advising Tony and Cherie Blair on how to best exploit events such as the World Economic Forum's Davos retreat ('what parties to go to').

A 2010 article by PRWeek mentioned Garvey's clients as including the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics, both held in London. Other clients included the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, Live Earth, the Maternal Mortality campaign and Jordan's Queen Rania.[14] An earlier biography mentioned Garvey as having served the musician Bono.

Garvey is the co-founder of Project Everyone, a campaign group dedicated to promoting the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.[15]

Personal life

Kate Garvey is married to Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia. It is Wales' third marriage and Garvey's first.

The couple met in Monaco in 2009 and then began dating in 2010 after meeting again at Davos. They had both been Young Global Leaders in 2007. In 2011, Wales moved to Britain. As of February 2011, the couple were already engaged, with Garvey pregnant and near delivery. A daughter was later born.[16]

Garvey married Wales in October 2012 at Wesley's Chapel in London.[17][18] Labour politician guests included Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair and David Miliband.[19] Celebrity guests included model Lily Cole and musician Mick Hucknall.[20]

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References

  1. ↑ Document:Wikipedia & the Spooks – The Remake
  2. ↑ "Executive Assistant and Personal Assistant Conference (speaker bio)". IQPC (International Quality and Productivity Center). 2008. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2013. Cite uses deprecated parameter |deadurl= (help)Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
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  9. ↑ Blair, Tony (2010). A Journey. p. 20. ISBN 1409060950.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
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  11. ↑ "YGL Alumni – Search (for Garvey)". YGL Alumni Community. World Economic Forum. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2013. Name: Kate Garvey; Year: 2007; Sector: ME-Media, Entertainment & Information; Stakeholder: YGL – Business; Country: United Kingdom; Region: Western Europe Cite uses deprecated parameter |deadurl= (help)Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  12. ↑ "The Forum of Young Global Leaders". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 27 June 2013. The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a unique, multistakeholder community of more than 700 exceptional young leaders who share a commitment to shaping the global future.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
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  15. ↑ Lepitak, Stephen (20 September 2015). "Project Everyone: How Richard Curtis aims to make world leaders follow the Global Goals and change the world with a global cinema ad". The Drum. Retrieved 2 December 2015.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
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  19. ↑ "POLITICY AND ECONOMY (222/506)". Retrieved 1 July 2013. Neil Kinnock and Glenys Kinnock arrives for the wedding of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to Tony Blair's former diary secretary, Kate Garvey at Wesley's Chapel, City of London, October 6, 2012. Photo by Fiona Hanson / i-Images / DyD FotografosPage Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
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