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Carol Fisher fired a parting shot at her critics in Whitehall as she stood down this week as the chief executive of COI Communications.
In her final annual report, Fisher said that in her three- and-a-half years at COI she had achieved her objective of making it a recognised world leader in public communications. She praised the agencies on the Government's roster and said her most proud achievement in the past year was COI winning Campaign's Advertiser of the Year award.
The prize created tension between COI and some Whitehall departments, who resented COI getting the limelight for their campaigns. In a thinly veiled reference to the Department of Transport's decision to break away from COI, Fisher thanked 'our valued clients' for the confidence and trust they placed in COI.
The report quoted praise from the Cabinet Office minister Chris Leslie, who said COI's skills 'cannot be matched anywhere else in government or, indeed, in any single organisation in the private sector'.
Privately, Fisher was unhappy that the Cabinet Office failed to block the DoT move. ...