Robbie Gibb

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(journalist, spin doctor, media executive)
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BornSeptember 1964
Alma materUniversity of London
Owner ofJewish Chronicle

Sir Robert Paul Gibb , known as Robbie Gibb, is a British public relations professional and former political advisor and broadcast journalist.

Background

Robbie Gibb is the brother of Conservative MP Nick Gibb. After graduating from Royal Holloway, University of London, he pursued a career as a journalist with his first role as a political researcher at the BBC. He then became chief of staff for Conservative MP Francis Maude in the late 1990s.

Gibb returned to the BBC in 2002 as the deputy political editor of Newsnight and went on to edit various television programmes including Daily Politics, The Andrew Marr Show, and This Week.

Spin doctor

Robbie Gibb was Prime Minister Theresa May's Downing Street Director of Communications between 2017 and 2019.

In August 2019, Robbie Paul Gibb formed RPG Consultancy Ltd and became a senior advisor for the public relations consultancy Kekst CNC.[1]

Media executive

On 17 April 2020, Sir Robbie Paul Gibb was appointed Director of Jewish Chronicle Media Ltd.[2]

Sir Robbie Gibb joined the BBC Board as a non-executive director in 2021.[3] On 11 November 2023, in his Declaration of Personal Interests, Gibb told the BBC of his directorships of Jewish Chronicle Media Ltd and RPG Consultancy Ltd; and, as a paid adviser to Kekst CNC, GlaxoSmithKline, Premier League, Horatius Advisory Ltd and JL Partners.[4]


 

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