Vyvyan Kinross

Vyvyan Kinross has a long career working as a communications and Public Relations advisor in the Middle East.  Most recently he was a senior advisor at the Palestinian Authorit’s Ministry of the Interior, consulting on a major aid development programme, that sought to find ways for the security sector to improve their relationship with the population of the West Bank and Gaza.

A PR professional and a former journalist, Vyvyan trained originally as an Arabist and has worked across the Middle East region  since the early 1970s.   He reported from Iraq on  Saddam’s war against the Ayatollah’s revolutionary Iran and went on to help Afghanistan’s new Counter Narcotics Directorate develop a communications strategy as part of the UK’s capacity building programme there.   At the time of the so called ‘Arab Spring’, he was based in Abu Dhabi, designing a modern  public relations system to improve communication between local government and citizens.    Vyvyan serves on the board of the London-based  CAABU - the Council for Arab-British Understanding (www.caabu.org) - probably the most active cross-party British NGO working within the UK Parliamentary system to advocate for a British foreign policy in the Middle East, focusing on civil rights and human rights as well as conflict resolution.