Guto Harri (; born 8 July 1966) is a Welsh broadcaster, writer and strategic communications consultant. He most recently served as Downing Street Director of Communications, having been appointed by Boris Johnson in February 2022. Harri spent 18 years as a journalist at the BBC. From 2008 to 2012 he was director of external affairs for Mayor of London Boris Johnson. He worked at News International from 2012 to 2015, Liberty Global from 2016 to 2017, Hanover Communications from 2018 to 2020, and Hawthorn Advisors from 2020 to 2022. In May 2021, Harri joined GB News as a presenter; he was suspended and subsequently resigned in July 2021 after he took the knee on air. In February 2022, Harri was appointed Downing Street Director of Communications by Prime Minister Johnson, following the resignation of Jack Doyle, and left the post in September 2022. Early life and education Guto Harri was born in Cardiff to writer and psychiatrist Harri Pritchard-Jones and Lenna (née Harries). A native Welsh speaker, he studied at Tonyrefail School and Ysgol Bryntaf, before attending Ysgol Gyfun Llanhari. After school Harri attended The Queen's College, Oxford, where he studied philosophy, politics and economics. He then undertook a postgraduate course in broadcast journalism at Cardiff University. Career Television He started his career in Welsh-language radio before moving into network radio and television. He remained a regular contributor on the S4C news programme Newyddion as well as on a number of historical documentaries for S4C. He later presented a number of BBC Wales' main election programmes. Harri was a regular presenter on BBC television and radio programmes such as The World at One, Westminster Live, Straight Talk, Despatch Box and The World This Weekend. He covered the collapse of communism in Romania, Czechoslovakia and East Germany before reporting on the Gulf War from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and northern Iraq. He became the BBC's chief political correspondent in November 2002 and also presented the weekly interview programme, One To One. He moved briefly to Rome from July 2004 to January 2005 and then became North America business correspondent based in New York City until June 2007. Harri was appointed as a trustee of S4C in 2014, and he was a member of the S4C Authority from 2014 to 2018. Since June 2018, he has presented the S4C current affairs television programme, Y Byd yn ei Le. S4C confirmed that he would