Background

John Eastmead – Brussels Practitioner and Professional Trainer

Following several years negotiating for the UK Government in the Trade Policy area in both Commission and Council Working Groups, John Eastmead worked at the UK's Civil Service College (now NSG) for 10 years where his experience involved the adaptation and delivery of European training to individual departments and agencies including:

• Negotiation skills for the Foreign Office and UKREP
• One-day tailor-made briefings for HM Treasury, the Employment and Transport Departments, Health, Cabinet Office, DTI (now BIS) and others
• Special on-site training for the Scottish and Northern Irish Devolved Administrations in Implementing Directives

He personally developed a number of new European courses reflecting his experience as a civil service practitioner with hands-on experience of dealing directly with the European Commission, with other Member States in the Council, and, more recently, with MEPs in the European Parliament. He also designed and delivered Pre-Accession training courses in a number of applicant countries including Finland, Cyprus, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovenia.

Within Government John was also responsible for the training of the European Fast Stream on behalf of the Cabinet Office, and over the years developed special training packages for the various Institutional competitions and for the development of Brussels-specific networking and lobbying skills.

Training Now Available

John is continuing to apply these skills to the delivery of training packages tailored to:

• The specific needs of Government Departments within
  • The UK (including Scottish Government, Welsh Assembly Government and Northern Ireland Devolved Government Departments.)
  • Other EU Member States
  • Accession countries
  • Other countries wishing to understand and influence EU business
• Executive Agencies
• The private sector
• Academic institutions
• Public affairs consultants and lobbyists.