“I look at it as a spectrum of practitioners from the lawyers on the left to the public relations folks on the right, and broadly in the middle there is something called public affairs...”

This week Telum talks to Richard Andrew, Managing Director - Asia at Landmark Public Affairs in Singapore to understand public affairs and its role in communications. Richard first started his career in a completely different industry - hospitality, before he made the switch and went on to lead Mastercard’s Asia Pacific public policy team and DHL’s policy advocacy agenda in Northeast and Southeast Asia.