Laura Kyrke-Smith

Account Director

An Account Director on the Government Advisory team, Laura plays a lead role in Portland’s reputation management and communications capacity-building work for overseas governments. She also works with Portland’s other international clients.
Laura joined Portland from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where she was speech-writer to Ministers of State for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown and Baroness Kinnock. She also worked as a Policy Analyst in the FCO’s Strategy Unit.
She previously worked at Polis, the media think tank at the London School of Economics, and the Foreign Policy Centre.
She has a degree in History from the University of Cambridge and a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics.