Jordan Meade is a senior public affairs and policy strategist with more than a decade of experience operating at the heart of Westminster and the House of Lords where he has served as an advisor to parliamentarians. 

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Elected to Local Government in 2015 as the youngest Councillor in Gravesham’s history, he went on to become the youngest Cabinet Member in local government in the United Kingdom at that time. Re-elected in 2019 and 2023, he now serves as Leader of the Opposition and Chairman of Scrutiny at Gravesham Borough Council, holding the administration to account and leading strategic policy challenges across the authority.

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Nationally, Jordan sits on the Local Government Pension Committee and serves as a Local Government Association Member Peer, contributing to governance, oversight, and national best practice in public administration.

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From 2021 to 2025, he represented Gravesend East on Kent County Council, holding senior deputy responsibilities across Adult Social Care, Public Health, and Community and Regulatory Services, and serving as Lead Member for Ukraine, where he helped coordinate one of the most active county-level responses to the war in Europe.

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Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Jordan became a driving force behind UK–Ukraine sub-national diplomacy. He designed and negotiated the Kent–Chernihiv Regional Partnership, the first formal agreement of its kind between a UK region and a Ukrainian oblast. As Founder and Head of Mission of Kent With Ukraine, he has led humanitarian convoys, delivered life-saving equipment, and built a long-term framework for civic, economic, and democratic cooperation — advancing decentralisation and resilience in a country at war.

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Alongside his elected roles, Jordan operates as an independent political and public policy consultant, advising Members of the House of Lords and senior public figures on parliamentary navigation, legislative strategy, stakeholder management, and political communications.

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He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), a Freeman of the City of London, a Fellow of the British-American Project, an EOPA Fellow, and a graduate of the University of San Francisco’s Certificate in Public Leadership. He is also an active member of the Gravesend and Meopham Rotary Club. Between 2020 and 2025, he served as National Vice Chairman of the Maritime Volunteer Service and now holds the honorary rank of Regional Commodore. He has further served as a School Governor at both primary and secondary school level. 

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His public and charitable service has received formal recognition in both the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2024, he was commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel by Governor Andy Beshear — the highest civic honour bestowed by  the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

 

In 2025, he was awarded the 'Order of Mercy Medal' at Mansion House, London by The Rt Hon. The Lord Lingfield DL KStJ

for 'distinguished voluntary and charitable service over many years'.