Another example of the revolving lobby door in action is Stephen Galilee, a former advisor to several Liberal Party politicians (including Tony Abbott and the now Premier of New South Wales Mike Baird) who now heads the New South Wales Minerals Council representing the interests of coal miners.
One recent example of this would be Martin Ferguson, who after spending six years as the Labor government's resources minister took a job as chairman of APPEA, the peak body for the oil and gas industry (as I've mentioned here before, Abbott advisor and Liberal Party polling guru Mark Textor owns a company that is registered as a lobbyist for APPEA).
Ami Beeton is leadership and localism advisor at the Local Government Association and manages the NGDP.
Charlotte Vaughan, mental health disability advisor at UCL, offers some expert advice: Has the student told you they feel unwell or have they asked for help?
Written by Guy Levin, a former economic advisor to George Osborne, it also urges that laws and regulations need to be fit for purpose, including allocating more resources to the Information Commissioner's Office which has struggled to keep up with regulatory challenges of consumer data protection in the internet era.
In the US, the ghostwriting addiction even extends to celebrity Christian tele-evangelists like Billy Graham or former jailed Nixon advisor Chuck Colson.
He represents Peabody Energy on the Southern States Energy Board and is an advisor to oil and gas developer Green Century Resources.
"All we've seen are the same reports coming out of al-Shabaab … but we have to run those to ground," said White House deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes.
"Second term is a gear change, because in first term you're making initial friendship groups, bedding down your accommodation and establishing yourself on that course," says Ruth Gibson, a student advisor at Newcastle University.
That man was Rohan Silva, the 32-year-old senior policy advisor to David Cameron who recently resigned.
After the election, Centrica's chief executive, Sam Laidlaw, was appointed to David Cameron's business advisory council, while the prime minister's current energy advisor in No 10, Tara Singh, is a former Centrica employee.
