Keith Johnston is a Council member of the London

London

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-based Chartered Institute of Public Relations

Chartered Institute of Public Relations

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 (CIPR). Keith is currently the Director of Policy and Communications at the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

STEP was founded by George Tasker in 1991 and is the international professional body for workers in the trust industry and the field of estate administration...

. Born in a council house in Aberdeen

Aberdeen

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 on 13 December 1974, Keith studied history at Glasgow University and moved to London in 1997. He worked as a lobbyist for the lighting and housing sector and a voluntary assistant to English MP, Joan Walley

Joan Walley

Joan Lorraine Walley is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent North since 1987.-Early life:...

. His interests include opera, poker and horse riding.

Keith was influential in balancing the interests of small finance centres with larger OECD-based finance centres through the report, Towards A Level Playing Field, and is also a member of the EU Expert Panel on the Savings Tax Directive.