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 | | |  | | Paul Cann, director of policy & external relations, Help the Aged
Paul Cann has been director of policy & external relations at Help the Aged since 2000, with responsibility for research, policy, international strategy, media and external relations. After reading English Literature at King's College Cambridge, where he also held a Choral Scholarship, he taught for five years. He joined the civil service where he held a range of postings at the Cabinet Office, including working as a private secretary to successive cabinet ministers. A subsequent spell in the private sector included working at The Independent newspaper. He joined the charity world in 1992 as director of the British Dyslexia Association and subsequently of the National Autistic Society. He was a trustee of the disability charity Contact a Family for five years, a charity which supports carers and people with special needs or disabilities.
At Help the Aged he has brought together research and policy, and he has been particularly involved in Help the Aged's work on pensioner poverty, social exclusion and care issues. As director with responsibility for international affairs, he has helped to reshape the charity's international programme and increased Help the Aged's own profile and activity
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