Profile of the Director of Representation and Policy
The Director of Representation and Policy of the Bar Council is Mark Hatcher.
From 2000-2003 Mark Hatcher was a member of the Regulatory and Professional Affairs Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Head of Global Public Affairs of PwC, the world’s largest professional services organisation. In 2006 he was appointed to lead the Bar Council’s Representation and Policy Directorate after having established the public policy advocacy practice of a leading City-based corporate and financial communications consultancy.
Mark Hatcher was called to the Bar by Middle Temple having graduated from the University of Oxford where he won the Winter Williams Law Prize. He is also an ad eundem member of Lincoln’s Inn. Mark practised at 3, New Square before joining the Law Commission to work on family and private international law reform. He subsequently worked in the House of Lords, in the Legislation Group of the Lord Chancellor’s Department (now the Ministry of Justice), before leaving Whitehall to join the Strategy, Policy and Economics Group in Coopers & Lybrand’s management consultancy, where he established the firm’s public affairs consulting practice.
Mark has led a number of the Bar’s parliamentary campaigns and played a key role in establishing the Bar Council’s Member Services Department, directing the Bar’s media relations and developing the Bar Council’s international relations function (including its Brussels Office).
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Corporate and European Fellow of the Industry and Parliament Trust.
