Ben Verinder
Managing Director, Chalkstream
Ben Verinder is a strategic communication and public relations expert advising boards, senior teams and communications professionals.
A former membership association communication director, he is one of 50 Founding Chartered public relations practitioners globally and a pioneering authority on the uses of behavioural science and artificial intelligence in public relations.
Ben is managing director of Chalkstream, an agency specialising in reputation management and measurement for a wide range of clients, including membership and trade associations, universities and colleges and government departments.
He is a founder member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ (CIPR) AI in PR panel, the author of the first papers published by the CIPR on the topic, a contributor to a wide range of publications on AI and PR, and creator of the ground-breaking AI and Reputation Leadership course.
He is a regular speaker on reputation management and leadership, AI and PR, crisis and issues management, communication and research, and he delivers training and consultancy on these topics to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK and internationally.
Ben also has extensive experience of leading research projects and teams for a wide range of Chalkstream clients and his professional interests include specialist studies of trade association members.
Since 2018 he has been the author of the ‘State of the Profession’ series, alongside a number of projects investigating the demography of UK PR practitioners using Office for National Statistics data.
Ben is a founder member of the CIPR’s Behavioural Insights Interest Group and Chair of the assessment panel for social mobility charity Socially Mobile. He mentors practitioners from under-represented groups in public relations.
Ben has contributed to several public relations books, including 'Chartered Public Relations: Lessons from Expert Practitioners' and ‘Introduction to Public Relations’.
He holds an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University and the Poetry School and is the 2024/5 Environmental Poet of the Year.
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https://www.chalkstreamltd.co.uk/
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-verinder/
