Simon Levitt

Founder and Partner of Harwood Levitt Consulting, Simon has designed global and European strategy for the world’s leading organisations, and has shown the corporate world how to build commercial strategy based on public policy. Simon works with many Fortune 500 companies, the trade associations of many commercial sectors, and non-profit groups including Oxfam, the Gates Foundation and the Open Society Institute. He is now one of Europe’s leading thinkers on how global companies and other organisations can profit from and interact with public policy: working on the shifts from lobbying to 360 campaigning, using the disciplines of marketing and logframe planning to build public affairs competitively, and helping commercial organisations monetize first mover advantage beyond CSR. Simon trains senior management on how to bring this effectively into their organisations, and his experience spans New York, London and Brussels. He holds a Masters from Oxford University, and speaks regularly about public affairs and business strategy at a number of leading European business schools.