Spear’s Review

With 25 years of PR and communications experience, Jonathan Hawker of Slate Campaigns is a crisis comms heavyweight who has supported clients in a wide range of contentious cases, from ‘intricate’ white-collar crime accusations to those involving HNWs who ‘fall victim to a crime in a way that you cannot fathom’.

Over the course of his career, he has witnessed firsthand the ‘reduced risk from mainstream media and increased risk from social media’, and AI advances have made hacking and accessing his clients’ private data ‘very easy’.

Despite these growing reputational challenges, Hawker continues to have innovative solutions, and once told Spear’s that he could ‘mitigate pretty much anything’. One effective method for Hawker is philanthropy, but ‘there’s no point having a solution that lacks credibility’, he warns. ‘There must be genuine passion behind the cause.’

It is for this astute knowledge and repeated peer recommendations that the enigmatic Hawker has remained in our Reputation Index since its first edition in 2015.