Guto Harri
| Guto Harri | |
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| Communications Director to the Mayor of London | |
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In office 2008–2012 |
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| Mayor | Boris Johnson |
| Preceded by | Joy Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Will Walden |
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8 July 1966 Cardiff, Wales, UK |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Occupation | Journalist, political correspondent, public relations |
Guto Harri (born 8 July 1966) is Managing Director of External Communications at Liberty Global. A former BBC Chief Political Correspondent, in May 2008 he was appointed as Communications Director for Mayor of London Boris Johnson's administration at London City Hall. He quit Johnson's team when Johnson was re-elected mayor in May 2012 and was confirmed in his role at newspaper publisher News International shortly afterwards. His first name is Welsh and is pronounced [ˈɡɪtɔ].
Guto Harri was born in Cardiff to writer/physician Harri Pritchard-Jones and his wife Lenna (née Harries). A native Welsh speaker, he studied at the Tonyrefail and Bryntaf schools before attending Ysgol Gyfun Llanhari and Queen's College, Oxford, where he studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE). He then undertook a postgraduate course in Broadcast Journalism at the Centre for Journalism Studies, Cardiff University.
He started his broadcasting career in Welsh-language radio before moving into national radio and television, working on the S4C news programme Newyddion and on a number of historical documentaries for S4C, as well as presenting BBC Wales' main election programmes. He was a regular presenter on BBC television and radio programmes such as The World at One, Westminster Live, Straight Talk, Despatch Box and The World This Weekend. He played a key role in covering the collapse of Communism in Romania, Czechoslovakia and East Germany before reporting on the Gulf War from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and northern Iraq. He became the BBC's Chief Political Correspondent in November 2002 and also presented the channel's weekly interview programme, One To One.
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