Weber Shandwick has appointed Dominique Jaquest as head of pharmaceutical communications for the UK health team, and Anna Hardman as digital and social media director.

Jacquest will report to group managing director Lucie Harper. Her responsibilities include further boosting the agency’s pharmaceutical communications expertise, and continuing to drive growth of its blue chip pharmaceutical client portfolio.

Jaquest joins Weber Shandwick from Chandler Chicco Agency (CCA) where she was senior client lead and a member of the agency’s ‘London Leadership Team’.

Hardman will be joining in July and be reporting to consumer practice leader EMEA Gabriela Lungu. She will be responsible for supporting growth and development of digital programs and to lead innovation across the firm's EMEA consumer operation. 

Hardman has spent the previous four and a half years at Edelman serving a number of its largest global accounts.