Nigel Warner is a director at Lexington Communications, co-founder of media diversity charity Creative Access and an IPPR Associate Fellow. He previously served as a government adviser to two secretaries of state – Tessa Jowell at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and the late Mo Mowlam at the Northern Ireland Office and Cabinet Office. As a consultant, Nigel works with companies across the creative sector on policy issues, and was public affairs director at ITV plc from 2008 to 2012.