Getting Tony Blair as your adviser

Thursday, 10th January 2008 by Matthew Rock

News out this morning that fTony Blair has picked up his first advisory role at JPMorgan. So how do you get top-notch advisory input?

The announcement this morning that former prime minister Tony Blair has bagged an advisory role at investment bank JP Morgan (for a reported £500,000 a year) begs an obvious question: how do I get one?

Who better to turn to for advice than our very own guru, John Timpson, regular Real Business columnist and chairman of the Timpson shoe-repair chain. According to Timpo, it all depends on what you want your non-executive to do. Here are his full thoughts.