Benjamin Wegg-Prosser

[1] He is CEO and co-founder of Global Counsel, a London-based strategic consultancy and lobbying organisation, which has Peter Mandelson as its President.

His grandfather Charles Wegg-Prosser was a parliamentary candidate for the British Union of Fascists before repudiating the party and joining Labour.

After service in the British Army in World War II, his grandfather served as a councillor on the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington for many years in the 1940s and 1950s, and then an alderman.

As publisher of the latter he launched a series of brand extensions including conferences, books, magazines and new sections in the newspaper.

[10] As of 2013, Wegg-Prosser is managing partner of Global Counsel, a London-based strategic consultancy which is chaired by Peter Mandelson.