Baroness Ruth Porter
managing director
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Life at FGS Global
Drawing on more than 20 years communications experience, Ruth advises companies on how to manage their corporate reputation, understand global trends and shape the conversations going on around them.
Life Pre-FGS Global
After starting out in think tanks, was Special Adviser in four UK government departments and then headed up UK Government Relations and International Affairs at London Stock Exchange Group. She as also worked as Deputy Chief of Staff in No10.
Life Beyond FGS Global
Laughing with her two daughters, pottering in the garden, running, swimming and eating out with friends.
Ruth Porter is a Managing Director at FGS Global in London, having joined the firm in 2020. With experience working at the very highest levels of business and government, Ruth draws on more than two decades working in communications to advise companies on how to position themselves in debates critical to their success. Her focus is corporate reputation, understanding global trends and how companies can become part of and shape the conversations going on around them. Before joining FGS Global, she spent four years at the London Stock Exchange Group, first heading up their UK Government Relations and Regulatory Strategy, and then going on to work as their Head of International Affairs. She has also been Deputy Chief of Staff in 10 Downing Street and a Special Adviser at the Ministry of Justice, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Department for Transport and Cabinet Office. She has worked at TechUK, as well as think tanks in the UK and New Zealand. Ruth sits as a Conservative peer in the House of Lords
