James Schneider

James Gerald Hylton Schneider (born 17 June 1987) is an English political organiser and writer currently serving as Communications Director for Progressive International. He co-founded the left-wing grassroots movement Momentum. In October 2016, he was appointed PR advisor to then leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn as Director of Strategic Communications. In 2022, Schneider published Our Bloc: How We Win, laying out a strategy for the British left in the 2020s, both within Labour and beyond. He is also an international chess player, representing St Vincent and the Grenadines at the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India in 2022. Early life Schneider was born to Jewish parents in central London. His father Brian was a financier and CEO of Soho-based property company OEM plc and was accused of the theft of £5 million from the company. He died in 2004 at the age of 48, when James was a teenager. James' mother Tessa Lang is a property developer. Schneider and his brother Tim were brought up in Primrose Hill in North London, with a second family home in Glen Tanar, Scotland.