Anna Byles
Senior Consultant
Rural Affairs
Anna Byles
A rural affairs specialist and experienced broadcast professional, Anna works with KOR’s portfolio of landed estate clients on rural land, property, and farming issues.
As a farmer’s daughter from Somerset, Anna brings a wealth of sector experience and expertise to the role. While working as a senior producer at the BBC, Anna was a driving force behind the broadcaster’s regional rural affairs coverage.
With a passion for the countryside, farming, and rural affairs, and with an extensive knowledge of the issues affecting rural businesses and communities, Anna is well qualified to support landed estates clients across the depth and breadth of their communications and PR activity and reputation management.
Anna puts her broadcast talents to use as our in-house podcast producer, delivering broadcast quality podcasts, connecting our clients’ key messages to topical issues in farming, land management and placemaking, as well as showcasing the important work they do in supporting the rural economy and the communities around them.
In a professional media career spanning almost two decades, Anna has worked extensively in both BBC and commercial radio.
Colleagues describe Anna as: Passionate, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, efficient, and driven.
