Robin Tickle is a senior leader with over 30 years’ international experience in strategic communications in both business and government, advising top executives on external affairs, reputation management, stakeholder relations, sensitive issues and risk management, combining big-picture strategic vision with a focus on strong operational execution. Robin was Nestlé’s head of corporate communications for 10 years. In this capacity, he managed a team of 20 people at headquarters and exercised functional leadership over a further 140 corporate communications professionals across the world, dealing with countless global and local crises involving issues such as food safety, human rights in supply chains and the environment. Earlier Robin was head of communications of Switzerland’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and council secretary of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). His first job was with UBS where he specialised in country risk and geopolitical forecasting. Robin is a graduate of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and holds a Board Director Diploma from IMD in Lausanne. He is trilingual in English, French and German, fluent in Italian and has some Arabic.