Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie (17 January 1936 – 8 October 2024) was a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament.
[7] Pattie was the founding Chairman of Strategic Communications Laboratories where he was also Director until he resigned from that position in 2008; the company offered "psychological warfare" services aimed at influencing elections, and later became known to a wider audience as a result of the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal involving its subsidiary.
After being beaten by Labour's Tom Driberg at Barking in 1966 and 1970, Pattie was elected as Member of Parliament for Chertsey and Walton in February 1974 – a seat he held until his retirement in May 1997.
He continued his public service as Minister of State for Industry until 1987, with responsibility for Science,[12] Civil Aviation, Space and Technology.
These included the Alvey Programme,[13] which ceased[citation needed] when he left office after the 1987 General Election,[14] and several projects of the European Commission, such as Eureka and ESPRIT.