Ardi Kolah
Ardi studied law at King's College London and before joining the BBC in news and current affairs. He has over 15 years' public relations and communications management experience, specialising in business transformation and internal communications practice in both the private and public sectors. He has worked for many leading international organisations in roles that combine strategy and implementation of major PR and change management programmes, including the BBC, Andersen Consulting, CMG plc, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, the DTI and HM Royal Navy.
Ardi is a Fellow of the Institute of Public Relations, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Marketers in the City of London. In April 2003, he received the prestigious Hollis Sponsorship Award for his work on the British Independent Film Awards.
Ardi is also a published author whose works include Maximising the Value of Sports Sponsorship (Financial Times) and Essential Law for Marketers (Butterworth Heinemann). He is a board director of the IPR and the European Sponsorship Consultants Association and is a visiting lecturer at the Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge University.