Simon Dickson, principal consultant at Puffbox, writes stuff about e-government, online news and politics. Some important people read it.

Jimmy Leach returns to Whitehall

24 November 2009 ,

News from the Foreign Office: they've selected Jimmy Leach, former head of digital at 10 Downing Street, currently 'Editorial Director for Digital' at The Independent, for the recently-advertised position of FCO's Head of Digital Engagement. He's due to start in February.

It'll be great to have him back: as I've written previously, I think he effectively kickstarted the wave of innovation around third-party services like YouTube, not to mention the e-petitions site, and did so without ever actually relaunching the No10 website.

  • Neil Franklin at 9:19 am on 26 November 2009

    We're all going to have to get used to his wittering-ons about the majesty of Manchester United again... groan...

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