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This podcast is hosted by National Director for Scotland, Catherine McWilliam, and Fife & Tayside committee Chair, Marlene Lowe.

As an advocate and public relations adviser, Joel has worked with Directors, CEO’s, Cabinet Secretaries, and sector leaders. His work first originated in human rights, as a leading advocate for better youth engagement by government and organisations and increased children’s rights in Scotland. 

This experience led him to advise on a range of youth engagement projects and campaigns nationally and internationally, including hosting a policy roundtable at Scotland House, Brussels and authoring for the International Journal of Human Rights, before later working at UNICEF in 2021 to coordinate their high-profile World Children’s Day in Scotland. 

Today he lives in Glasgow and works he is in public relations, consulting for a range of public sector, public sector and professional bodies. He currently serves as vice-chair on the board of the Scottish Child Law Centre, Chair of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Scotland’s Future Leaders Forum and as a senior account executive at public relations agency, Clark.

Fast Facts: 

• Author in the International Journal of Human Rights in 2022 
• Appointed to the Board of trustees for the Scottish Child Law Centre in 2019 (aged 19)
• Has a seat on many advisory panels and working groups including for the Scottish Government’s 2018 Year of Young People. 
• He has been a B2B and public sector public relations consultant at Clark for the past two years. 

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