PPR appoints new General Manager
Professional Public Relations (PPR) has appointed Jonathan Tudor, a highly experienced communications specialist with an extensive international background, to the new position of General Manager New Zealand.
Over the past 20 years Jonathan Tudor, whose academic qualifications include an MBA, has worked in account director and senior management roles in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and most recently Dubai. He has managed communications programmes in a broad range of business sectors.
After graduating from University College London, Jonathan worked in public relations consultancies in London in the 1990s until coming to New Zealand in 1996, becoming Auckland general manager of an international agency before returning to the UK in 2004.
Since 2006 he has been with the Middle East’s largest PR consultancy network, Asda’a Burson-Marsteller in Dubai, firstly leading its corporate practice and then becoming general manager of sister company Polaris. In these roles he led substantial local teams and programmes across the Middle East and North Africa, working with a wide range of national and international clients.
He will take up his new role at the end of July. Bob Wallace remains National Director of Professional Public Relations NZ and Sally Haysom remains Executive Chairman.







