Lionel Stanbrook is Head of Issue Management and Crisis Communications at Syngenta International AG, based in Basel, Switzerland.  He formerly served as Managing Director and Partner of PRM European Lobbyists.  For the previous nine years he worked as Deputy Director-General at the Advertising Association.  In 1989-1991, Stanbrook served as Director of Shandwick Public Affairs, in charge of European lobbying and issue management.  Between 1982 and 1989 Stanbrook worked in Brussels as an official of the European Communities.  He is a visiting lecturer on marketing regulation and public policy at the University of the Sorbonne, Paris II.