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Trudi Beggs

Director
Trudi Beggs
Trudi is a member of 8020’s senior management team and leads our company marketing and diversity development programme.

She has more than 20 years’ aviation and travel PR experience and is a regular conference speaker and panelist on PR in travel.

Trudi specializes in commercial aviation and consumer travel, and has advised a wide range of clients at CEO level, including major airlines, business jet operators, travel management companies and luxury hospitality brands. Trudi has also worked with some of the industry’s most prominent tour operators, sustainable travel companies and tourist boards.

She is an experienced crisis communications expert and was the leader of one of only two PR agencies chosen to guide Etihad Airways through the Covid-19 pandemic.

Trudi has also worked in Ghana as the PR manager for sustainable development charity Raleigh International, and at national youth charity The Prince’s Trust, with particular responsibility for major events such as Party in the Park and the Urban Music Festival, as well as The Trust’s Premier League football partnership and celebrity Ambassador programmes.

Trudi Beggs