Patrick Orr has spent his professional career promoting the interests of developing countries. This has included institution building and strengthening information services at government level. Patrick gives strategic advice and plans public relations programmes for companies investing, or seeking to invest, in the developing world – particularly Africa.
He has helped to establish a network of consultancies in Africa as part of the Raitt Orr group.

A specialist in government relations, Patrick has considerable experience in working with international organisations, including the United Nations, non-governmental organisations and the development community as a whole. He helped to launch the Brundtland Commission report in 1987, described as the most important development document of the decade, and ran a campaign to publicise the eradication of Guinea worm, in collaboration with the Carter Center, headed by former US President Jimmy Carter.