Natasa Pantelic is an associate vice president at EGA UK. She has worked in politics for nearly 20 years both in Parliament and local government, including as an elected member for 15 years. She has deep experience in campaigning, communications, parliamentary procedure and legislative affairs. She provides strategic counsel to a range of clients to help them navigate the UK political environment and implement effective communications strategies.
Prior to EGA, Ms. Pantelic worked for a number of Labour politicians, latterly for Sir Chris Bryant MP, Shadow Minister for Creative Industries and Tech, providing political, legislative and campaign support. She has also worked for the former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Andrew Smith, and former Home Office Minister, Fiona Mactaggart. Ms. Pantelic served as an elected member in Slough for 15 years before standing down in May 2023. She served in the Cabinet for almost all that time, most recently as the lead member for social care and public health from 2017-2023. She coordinated the town’s response to the pandemic, served on the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board developing policy for local councils, and was Chair of the Slough Wellbeing Board bringing together different organizations from the private and public sectors to improve health inequalities for local people. She was also part of the team that created the Frimley Integrated Care System which plans, buys, and provides health and care services to communities covering 800,000 people.
Ms. Pantelic led a successful campaign to reduce tooth decay in children under the age of 5, worked with the NHS to open community hubs across the borough, and introduced the first parental leave policy for elected members at Slough Council. Ms. Pantelic holds a joint honours degree in politics and English from Oxford Brookes University and has Qualified Teacher Status. She is a former parliamentary candidate in the recent and fiercely fought Chesham and Amersham by-election. She is a founder of the Labour Women’s Parliamentary Staff Network in the UK Parliament.
A regular writer on women in politics, Ms. Pantelic recently wrote for the UK Parliament’s House Magazine profiling women who chair House of Commons Select Committees (Women Select Committee Chairs (politicshome.com). She also had essays published in The Honourable Ladies Vol 2 as part of two books documenting all women elected to the UK Parliament since 1918. Ms. Pantelic is a graduate of the Jo Cox Women in Leadership Programme and the Fabian Women Mentoring and Political Education Programme. She also serves as an Executive Member of the Fabian Women’s Network. Ms. Pantelic enjoys travel, classical music, and the opera.