John Sharkey, Baron Sharkey
The Lord Sharkey | |
|---|---|
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 20 December 2010 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 September 1947 |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats |
John Kevin Sharkey, Baron Sharkey (born 24 September 1947) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was chairman of the Liberal Democrat General Election campaign during the 2010 United Kingdom general election and director of the YES! To Fairer Votes campaign during the 2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum. He had previously been appointed as Nick Clegg's advisor on strategic communications in January 2008.
He is also a former joint managing director of Saatchi & Saatchi UK, founder and director of Sharkey Associates Ltd. and a trustee and honorary treasurer of the Hansard Society. He was created a Life Peer as Baron Sharkey, of Niton Undercliff in the County of the Isle of Wight on 20 December 2010.