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Neil Edward Francis Bennett MPRCA is a British CEO, writer, broadsheet journalist and editor. He is Chief Executive of communications consultancy Maitland/AMO, part of the Havas group.

Career
Bennett was business editor of the Sunday Telegraph from 1995-2002, winning the UK Press Award's Business Journalist of the Year twice in succession. He was appointed to the Telegraph by Charles Moore. He was succeeded as business editor by Robert Peston.

Prior to the Telegraph, Bennett was a journalist for Investor’s Chronicle. He joined The Times newspaper as banking correspondent and later Deputy Business Editor, where he relaunched the paper’s Tempus column.

In 2002 he became CEO of the financial and public affairs communication agency Gavin Anderson & Company UK (now Kreab Gavin Anderson). He was appointed Chief Executive of Maitland/AMO in October 2010, having served as the firm's Vice Chairman. He was appointed to the Board of the PRCA in 2017, having received its Outstanding Contribution Award in 2016.

Education
Bennett attended Westminster schoo l (1978-1982) before studying Medieval Archaeology at University College London and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism at City University. At UCL Bennett was news editor for London Student and was awarded NUS Student Journalist of the Year in 1985.

Personal life
Bennett is a trustee of the Chailey Heritage Foundation, which works in support of disabled children, young people and families, particularly those affected by neurological motor impairment, such as cerebral palsy. He is a former Trustee of the John Schofield Trust, which works in support of new journalists. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a former Board advisor to the London Capital Club (formerly the Gresham Club). He is a former wine columnist for City A.M. newspaper.

Bennett is married with two daughters. His Who’s Who entry lists his recreations as antiquarian book collecting, Irish Terriers and running. In 2010 Bennett almost died as result of kidney failure, following a 56-mile ultramarathon in South Africa.