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Barry Hartness

Associate Partner

Barry specialises in the recruitment of senior health and life sciences professionals in public affairs, policy, media and communications. He also leads Ellwood Atfield's international pharmaceutical headhunting.

He started his career in a public affairs agency before moving to Parliament where he was a Political Adviser and Researcher for a Secretary of State. He subsequently worked in the corporate and public affairs teams at the British Retail Consortium and the National Housing Federation.

Barry has an encyclopedic knowledge of MPs and their constituencies garnered from his election campaigning across the country. He holds a BA (Hons) in Politics from the University of Warwick.